Rush University is hosting Dr. Amanda Schalk on Wednesday, March 22nd at 3 PM to discuss her journey as a scientist and her path to entrepreneurship in the biotech industry! Dr. Schalk is also an AWIS summer mentor and was named SOTM in 2020. Questions will be open to the audience at the end or can be submitted beforehand. If you would like to submit a question, please click here (link: https://forms.gle/NDFBYtt5TrZHWJKp9).
Dr. Schalk is a co-founder and Chief Operations Officer at Enzyme by Design and a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She completed her BS in Biochemistry at Eastern Michigan University and her Master’s and Ph.D. at the International Max Planck Research School for Molecular Biology in Goettingen, Germany. Her postdoc at Dr. Lavie’s lab at the UIC was developing protein anti-cancer therapeutics using structural biology. She worked 2 years off the bench as a virtual lab manager with small biotechs across the country. In 2017, her team from UIC spun out their safer cancer therapeutics technology into the startup Enzyme by Design where she is co-founder and Chief Operating Officer and enjoying the rollercoaster adventure of entrepreneurship.
To register for the event, please click here (link: https://forms.gle/mEvTjneDmKH6VvXh9). This is a hybrid event, so it will be available virtually and a link to the event will be sent out to registered attendees prior to the event. Feel free to e-mail Christina Nowicki (christina_a_nowicki@rush.edu) if you have any questions!