Delaware BioScience Association

Celebrating the holidays at last Thursday’s Holiday Happy Hour!🎄   Thank you to Autumn Arch Beer Project for hosting our holiday celebration and to Avantor for sponsoring our Happy Hour programming.   A huge thank you to all our members for another great year of events, innovation, and connection. We wish you all a happy holiday season and hope to see you on January 16th for our first BioBreakfast of 2025! https://lnkd.in/eywgHu8J   #DEBio #bioscience #innovation

A huge thank you to the team at Agilent Technologies for hosting a wonderful Inspiring Women in STEM Quarterly Networking event this past Thursday!   Keisha Morris of Bayhealth led an interactive workshop which helped our attendees discover their Ikigai, or their life purpose. Through this reflective process we learned how to better find fulfillment and meaning in both work and life.   Thank you, Agilent Technologies, AstraZeneca, Avantor and Incyte for sponsoring this #IWSTEM Quarterly!   We look forward to seeing you in the new year at more Inspiring Women in STEM events! #IWSTEM24 #DEBio #NetDE

What a fantastic time this morning at our November BioBreakfast at ChristianaCare! Thanks to Omar Khan and Eric B. Kmiec for their presentations on the amazing work underway at ChristianaCare and ChristianaCare Gene Editing Institute. Thanks to our New Member Showcase presenters Josh Thomas of Dibert Valve and Fitting Co., Inc., Brian DiSabatino of EDiS Company, Alexandra Low Smythe of IDE Group, Vered (Ve'-Red) Nohi of Kitov Impact and Sean Haney of SPHERE Consultants LLC. Thank you to our series sponsors Avantor, AstraZeneca, Incyte, NIIMBL | The National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals and Prelude Therapeutics for supporting our BioBreakfast programming. We’ll see you in January for our first BioBreakfast of 2025 at the Fintech Hub! #DEBio #NetDE #Bioscience

What a fantastic time at yesterday’s October Members Only Happy Hour🎃 Thank you to Grain Exchange for hosting and to our event sponsor Avantor for supporting our members. We hope to see you at our upcoming events! https://lnkd.in/eEH8jCfX #DEBio #members #bioscience

We are pleased to join the University of Delaware today in announcing the appointment of Nicole Merli, MBA, CRA to a new role designed to spark biotech ecosystem growth through expansion and strengthening of university-business collaboration. The role was created and will be jointly funded through an innovative partnership between the University of Delaware and the Delaware BioScience Association (Delaware Bio) and enabled through funding support from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) inaugural Accelerating Research Translation (ART) program to invest in capacity-building resources that enhance research impact. In the new position, Merli will lead efforts to support the translation of cutting-edge university research into new technologies, products, companies, and commercial opportunities by rich connections between university faculty, students, entrepreneurs, investors and businesses. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gfErSQ5S

Thank you to the speakers, sponsors and over 200 energetic attendees who made yesterday’s 11th Annual Inspiring Women in STEM Conference an amazing and uplifting event! Thank you to our speakers for their powerful insights: Henna Pryor, PCC, Sarah Baker Andrus, APR, Sara Rego, PhD, Danette Conley, D.B.A., Lo Li Carper, Pearl Pugh, Ann O'Brien, Danielle Vozzo and Dustin Sleesman. To our 2024 Planning Committee for their hard work and commitment: Jessica Bitondo, Erica Crell, Beth Dewing, Jessica J., Robin Karol, Jennifer Kmiec, Michelle Kroc, Katie Lakofsky, Sandra Lewisch, Nicolette Nordmark, Ann O'Brien, Jamie Pedrick, Michele Porreca, Helen Stimson, Danielle Vozzo and Erica Woolridge. To our sponsors for their pivotal support and partnership: AstraZeneca, Avantor, Incyte, Delaware Business Times, NIIMBL | The National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals, Prelude Therapeutics, Biotechnology Innovation Organization, Agilent Technologies, DuPont and FMC Corporation. Final thanks to the student volunteers of NEWARK CHARTER SCHOOL for their assistance and to Deerfield Golf Club DE for their amazing facility and staff. We hope to see many of you on November 14th for the IWSTEM Quarterly Networking event at Agilent Technologies! #IWSTEM24 #DEBio #WomeninSTEM #empowerment

“We need to pay more attention to the source of salary info” says Dustin Sleesman of University of Delaware in his gender pay gap and salary negotiations session at #IWSTEM24.

We can’t thank these fabulous women in STEM for discussing good bragging, career journeys, and daily routines of leaders. Thank you Lo Li Carper of Capital One, Henna Pryor, PCC of Pryority Group, and Pearl Pugh of Johnson & Johnson for getting candid with us today! #IWSTEM24

Morning #IWSTEM24 sessions on communication techniques with Sara Rego of AstraZeneca and career navigation with Danette Conley of Incyte hit the mark!

Nothing like the sweet sound of networking at #IWSTEM24 with Sarah Baker Andrus, APR!