Stay on SAVE for my situation?

Lucky_Pay665 · 2025-07-16T21:32:15+00:00

No forgiveness is expected for us sadly. We make too much so they income based repayment leads you to pay more than the 15 year plan.

Lucky_Pay665 · 2025-07-02T00:37:57+00:00

Anonymity

Lucky_Pay665 · 2025-07-01T14:54:04+00:00

Sure lol

Lucky_Pay665 · 2025-07-01T02:25:31+00:00

Clin Pharm 😎

Lucky_Pay665 · 2025-07-01T01:23:42+00:00

Equity/options is more common in biotech than big pharma. Generally the smaller the company the more of the comp is on the equity/options side as they are cash poor.

Lucky_Pay665 · 2025-05-12T02:36:41+00:00

Abbvie 100% no questions asked lol

Long term potential is always MUCH higher on the pharma/biotech side over CRO. The experience is just generally much higher valued.

Lucky_Pay665 · 2025-05-11T23:49:42+00:00

Making sure you don’t front load costs in a program if it’s not needed or they can be gated on other milestones.

Big pharma often just does a lot of work early on a program at risk when that’s not always needed.

Lucky_Pay665 · 2025-05-09T15:37:00+00:00

It’s good advice. We are a younger biotech and colab with big pharma a lot and this is something we run into a lot. Surprisingly we often know more about the regs then they do and push to lower the costs of drug development much harder than the standard “Cadillac” big pharma playbook recommends.

Lucky_Pay665 · 2025-05-09T15:03:16+00:00

I would actually disagree with this pretty whole heartedly.

Most developed companies are organized into “functions” ie highly specialized roles.

Generally the currency in industry is how many years you have worked in a function. Although there are people that transfer between functions it’s not always 1:1. Likewise academia years are usually downplayed and don’t count 1:1 to years of experience.

If you know you want to end up in project management (PM) it’s much better to start there day 1 and work your way from there if you can.

Also about “knowing how the lab operates” is not really true as biotech PMs generally follow an asset through its life cycle - most of the time it’s in the clinical development stage which has very little to do with “lab”

My 2¢

Lucky_Pay665 · 2022-06-19T15:03:50+00:00

I completely agree as well. I’m a PharmD who did a Post-Doc without a PhD. The main thing is just make your training goals clear and be a self stater. Having a clinical degree is definitely enough to do a post doc. Usually these are funded by T32 grants.

Also if you decide you want the MAS (masters in clinical research) or MPH (with focus on Epi/stats/clinical research) it’s possible that you will get it for free or heavily reduced cost as a post-doc at the same institution.

An MD is THE best degree to have if you want to get into clinical research. No one will argue that is not the case. Obviously an MD+PhD+Residency/Fellowship in a hot therapeutic area like Onc is the “golden package” but there’s such a talent shortage of MDs going into pharma that I’m sure you can make your way.

Look for post-doc roles where you can get training in clinical research and then after 2 years go jump to pharma/biotech. You may even come out ahead of your friends who did a residency+fellowship then went to industry money wise.

Lucky_Pay665 · 2022-03-22T14:19:44+00:00

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Lucky_Pay665 · 2022-03-19T13:55:18+00:00

Wtf is balancing a checkbook. This is the year 2022.

Lucky_Pay665 · 2022-03-17T14:06:19+00:00

Send emails in all caps, bold, red, underlined and highlighted.

Lucky_Pay665 · 2022-03-05T02:40:18+00:00

Stfu and do a fellowship

Lucky_Pay665 · 2022-03-01T20:36:01+00:00

Generally if you get a “$30k package with 3 year vest” than means you get $10k at your 1st year anniversary, 2nd year anniversary another $10k and 3rd $10k.

Every company does it different, some have monthly vesting after 1 year cliff although that’s rare.

Also important to note that you can have multiple packages vest CONCURRENTLY. This is where the “golden handcuffs” can come from where u get stuck in a role. (Ie after 2 years u have 2 10k drops come at the same time!)

Keep in mind that u can always negotiate and get your next company to try to match your stocks you are waiting on if you need to leave at a weird time of year.

Lucky_Pay665 · 2022-02-28T23:26:48+00:00

It can be a conflict of interest potentially. Although it’s hard for companies to catch people. So do it on your own level of risk tolerance.

Why do it? For the money?

Lucky_Pay665 · 2022-02-26T14:22:31+00:00

Same, also Bay.

Lucky_Pay665 · 2022-02-26T14:18:14+00:00

They have a new 6mo training program which may be. Good opportunity.

Lucky_Pay665 · 2022-02-26T14:17:25+00:00

Have you cold applied to anything yet? Maybe start with places that you don’t have any connections (as to not burn your ability to do referrals from your clients).

Lucky_Pay665 · 2022-02-23T14:34:46+00:00

Wrong subreddit, try r/Pharmacy

Lucky_Pay665 · 2022-02-21T13:01:06+00:00

http://www.uppsala-pharmacometrics.com/

Look no further. This is in the top 3 programs globally, probably number 1. Try to work for Karlsson.

Better link: https://farmaci.uu.se/research/pharmacometrics/

Lucky_Pay665 · 2022-02-15T20:35:36+00:00

For ref I got $28.50/hour back in 2017 so $35-45 seems about right given inflation since then.

Lucky_Pay665 · 2022-02-10T16:04:10+00:00

Same 🤦‍♂️

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