Degree programs in Europe?

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JV

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Jul 23, 2018, 4:24:18 PM7/23/18

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Friends, I'm trying to get my head around this:

What specific skills should you develop to maximize your career capital in biotech/genomics? And do you necessarily need to attend a university, or can you develop them on your own, with MOOCs, etc.?

If you prefer to work in startups, and you choose to go to a university, are there any quick practical "learning-by-doing" degree/programs in Europe?

I would really appreciate your thoughts. Thanks so much!

Nathan McCorkle

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Jul 25, 2018, 4:38:35 PM7/25/18

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Careers in biotech/genomics can be quite varied. You can be purely theorhetical, or work on disease outbreak genomics and prevention, you can be a lab technician, you can be cross-disciplinary, etc... You can certainly be an innovator being self-taught, but having an ID to get past a locked door at a university lab or lounge can be the key to a much larger community of (mostly) experts and otherwise dedicated people. Community labs are much less prevalent than universities and schools. Online forums can be a source of socialization and cross-pollination, but it might be hard to find a good fit. On top of that, if you're at all into non-theory or lab/hardware work... being non-local often halts a lot of collaboration, or at least certain kind of projects.

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