Young talents guided toward careers in Life Sciences
Young talents guided toward careers in Life Sciences
On January 21, temperatures plunged to near zero. Outside, a snow storm raged. Roads were precarious. Flights were cancelled. Yet Boston’s infamous winter weather didn’t keep nearly 200 young talents from swissnex Boston’s “Life Science Night” – one of the hottest career networking events on the swissnex calendar!
Highlighting Switzerland’s excellence in Life Science, swissnex Boston was proud to feature the top addresses in the field, such as ETH and EPFL (Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology, Zurich and Lausanne), University of Basel as well as Novartis and Lonza.
With succinct presentations on, for instance, an ETH/Harvard collaboration on “The Health Effects of Nanoparticles,” representatives pitched their institutions as “the place to be.” Then, over wine and hors d’oeuvres, the young talents got one-on-one informational interviews with the presenters, who guided them through their organization’s opportunities, technologies and growth potential.
That guidance was key to the event. As Lonza’s Mark Cohen noted: “Some candidates are still very early in their careers, so they are evolving in their thinking.”
The event was such a success that Dimitrios Noukakis of EPFL thought it should be repeated more often than once annually. He deemed it an “excellent marketing strategy”—getting to know some of the best young talents, which the Boston area attracts—“because it gives a lot of visibility especially to institutions like ours, which are less known.”
