This will be an informal career roundtable with an emphasis on scientific roles in non-profits.

Our guest will be Kyle Kleinbeck, PhD, a graduate of two of our School’s programs (Pharmaceutical Sciences PhD in 2011; BS Pharmacology-Toxicology graduate from ‘07). Most of Dr. Kleinbeck’s professional roles since earning his PhD have been with non-profit organizations, including a scientist role with Population Council’s HIV/AIDS and Reproductive Health Program’s in New York (2013-16) and his current role (April 2017-present) as a senior scientist for formulation technology with the International Partnership for Microbicides (whose motto is “developing HIV prevention products for women, worldwide”).

Dr. Kleinbeck will begin his discussion at 5:45 in 2339 Rennebohm.

Come learn about these and similar settings for scientists in non-profit organizations. Kyle will highlight his technical, manufacturing, and regulatory accomplishments from these professional experiences and give us a sense of working for a mission whose focus is on improving health in developing countries. Kyle will be touching on some of the key strategic and cultural differences between product development at large industrial pharmaceutical companies and development in non-profit and academic labs.

In addition to his work in non-profits, Kyle has had two roles in academia which involved attempting to translate academic technologies into the pharmaceutical/medical device industries. One such effort was during graduate school (trying to take wound care technology into clinical trials), and secondly at the University of Washington, where he was working on injective HIV therapies. The experience at UW-Madison produced a paper, which was a commentary on the unique challenges of product development in the academic and non-profit spheres. See https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3746065