4.0
May 20, 2010
Current employee
Cambridge, MA
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook
Pros
The resources behind the postdoc project make it attractive to do a postdoc at Novartis. In addition, the scale of experiments is large. Instead of thinking about a single protein family member, we are authorized to go after the entire family.
Cons
The biggest down side to being a postdoc in industry - at least at Novartis - is feeling isolated. The postdocs do not work on pipeline projects, which is good so that our work can be published, but every one around is working on a pipeline project, with tangential relationship to the postdoc project. Most labs only have 1 postdoc, so it is easy to feel isolated.