YCC Virtual April Seminar-How to Translate Your Academic Studies into an Industry Career

Title:  How to Translate Your Academic Studies into an Industry Career

Speaker: Mufeda Zhort

Bio: Mufeda Zhort holds a bachelor’s in chemistry concentration in Pharmaceutical Science from Fairleigh Dickinson University, NJ. She further pursued her master’s and Ph.D. in chemistry from Seton Hall University, NJ, where she specialized in the synthesis, structure elucidation and alkane oxygenation reactivity of three bioinspired fluoroalkyl iron phthalocyanines.

She joined PDI in May 2020 where she worked in a cGMP lab as an analyst, method validation and transfer,  and as a data reviewer. She then joined Parexel (formally Execupharm) contracted at Merck in the Discovery Analytical R&D group collaborating with the high throughput experimentation and high throughput purification groups for method development of small and large molecules and was promoted to Principal Scientist 1 after her tenure.

In the beginning of this year, Mufeda started her new role as a Senior Scientist at Merck in the Small Molecule Analytical Research and Development group at West Point, PA. She is part of the GLP Analyical team developing innovative analytical methodologies for early stage development.

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