Author: Yung S. Lie, Ph.D.
Yung S. Lie, Ph.D.
Exploring career options and choosing to pursue a non-profit position
Making the decision to leave an academic research career is a significant mental hurdle. The next step is then deciding what type of new career you want to pursue. When I got to this point, I struggled because I didn’t know what my options could be. I knew that I wanted to continue to us...
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Yung S. Lie, Ph.D.
What does a Scientific Director at a Foundation do?
I have yet to come up with a perfectly clear and concise description of my job. The reason for this is that what I do changes from day to day and from week to week. The official description of my job as Scientific Director is: “overseeing the Foundation’s three grant programs ($10 million...
Yung S. Lie, Ph.D.
Forging a New Path
When I look back and count the years, I am shocked to realize that I’ve been in science for almost 18 years – since my first job in a lab during sophomore year of college. That’s almost half of my entire life! In reality, my love of science started well before then. As a child, I w...
