Industrial careers Palle Høy Jakobsen Director Head, R&D Academic Fellowships Novo Nordisk A/S
A Mission Impossible? 10 Jan 2013 2 Career oppertunities. PRIVATE The pharmaceutical industry PUBLIC Universities
Novo Nordisk at a glance Introduction to the company Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company with 90 years of innovation and leadership within: diabetes care insulin injection devices Thanks to dedicated research into proteins, Novo Nordisk also holds leading positions within: haemostasis management growth hormone therapy hormone replacement therapy
Protein engineering and formulation Protein drug delivery Large-scale biologics manufacturing Global commercial infrastructure A Mission Impossible? 10 Jan 2013 5 Novo Nordisk at a glance Therapeutic area Compounds and capabilities Strategic focus Diabetes Insulin and GLP-1 Expand leadership Obesity GLP-1 Establish presence Haemophilia Coagulation factors Expand portfolio Growth disorders Human growth hormone Achieve leadership Novo Nordisk Way
A Mission Impossible? 10 Jan 2013 6 The R&D Process (drugs & devices) Idea Pre-project Research Clinical Manufacturing Pre-clinical tests Clinical trials Phases 1-3 Product registration Preparing for launch Reaching the market Phase 4 trials
A Mission Impossible? 10 Jan 2013 7 Over 4,000 Novo Nordisk employees contribute to R&D value chain External collaborations Quality (Corporate Relations) Diabetes Research Unit (950) Device R&D (311) Biopharm Research Unit (563) External collaborations CMC Supply (1,057) CMC: Chemistry, Manufacturing, Control Global Development (893) Haemophilia R&D Portfolio (33) Regulatory Affairs (368) New Product Planning (Operations) R&D staffs (Strategic R&D) : 38 Regional CMR* offices staff: 973 Last updated: Q2 2012 Source: People data *Clinical Medical Regulatory
Global R&D A Mission Impossible? 10 Jan 2013 8 Denmark Seattle Princeton Beijing Bangalore CMR* regions: *CMR: Clinical Medical Regulatory North America (Princeton, NJ) Europe (Zürich) International Operations (Zürich) Japan/Korea (Tokyo) China (Beijing) Research & Development Denmark Beijing, China Seattle, WA, USA Princeton, NJ, USA Bangalore, India
A Mission Impossible? 10 Jan 2013 Slide no 9 Novo Nordisk R&D S T R Programme Science Talent Attraction & Recruitment Novo Scholarships Grant to write master thesis at Danish universities and Lund university Grant to Medical Research Year at Danish universities Co-funded PhD. fellowships Industrial PhD PhD Schools at Danish universities STAR International PhDs (foreign host university) PostDocs STAR Post Docs, For STAR PhDs and exceptionally qualified scientists incl. medical doctors www.novonordisk.com/star
STAR PostDoc Fellows 2013 Active and completed 1998 30 June 2013 Sigma Aldrich (SAFC) Loyola Toronto McGill Nottingham Vrije Linköping Karolinska Institutet Washington Manchester Uppsala Fudan Dublin Lund Stanford Kings College Setsunan, Osaka, Japan Santiago de Compostela San Francisco Justus-Liebig The Hebrew -Hadassah Tokyo Berkley Geneva Martin Luther Burnham Institut Medical Research Chapel Hill Princeton Harvard Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Institute for Biomedicine and Health Science R&D locations Clinical Medical Regulatory Offices
Diversity fosters innovation A Mission Impossible? 10 Jan 2013 11
STAR fellowship postgraduate training 2013
STAR Symposium activities
Novo Nordisk STAR fellows Professional Qualifications Strong competences from active research environments International experience and networks Good publications (and PhD thesis) and/or patent applications Skills in new technologies High personal ambitions
Fellowship Programmes Talent Attraction Knowledge Transfer Long term Relations Support of Education System
Career paths in Novo Nordisk A Mission Impossible? 10 Jan 2013 16
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A Mission Impossible? 10 Jan 2013 19 Conclusions [ ] you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. Steve Jobs, Commencement address Stanford, June 2005 But you can increase the odds Work hard Diversify Follow your passion