Career Exploration & Development

Welcome to the GSBS page for career exploration and development. A graduate degree in biomedical science opens doors to a variety of career paths, each requiring some shared and some unique skills. There are numerous internal and external opportunities available to UTMB trainees for career exploration and skills development; we hope that the information provided here will help you to discover these activities. Your extracurricular career exploration should enhance your graduate or postdoctoral training and better prepare you for the job market - this page is a starting point to get you going!

**Please note that many events require advance registration in order to attend**

Deadline to apply for T1-T4 in 3 minutes competition

Are you a UTMB graduate student or postdoctoral fellow?  Do you think you can explain your research in layman’s terms…in less than three minutes? 

The Institute for Translational Sciences presents our annual T1-T4 in 3 (Minutes) competition, an innovative contest that challenges UTMB graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to effectively explain their translational research for a lay audience in three minutes or less. 

 Date: Thursday, April 11,2024 

Time: 4:00pm – 6:00pm   

Location: Health Education Center, Room 2.206 

 1st Place: $750 

2nd Place: $500 

3rd Place: 250 

People’s Choice Award: $750 

Blackstone LaunchPad Award: $750 

Applications are due by 5pm on March 18th.  To submit your abstract, please use this link: https://redcap.link/T1-4.2024 

 Only 12 abstracts are selected for the competition.  

 Questions? Contact Krista Bohn at krbohn@utmb.edu