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What Comes After Graduation? Finding Your Path in Biomedical Engineering — A Conversation with Dr. Jose Rios Lizarraga

What Comes After Graduation? Finding Your Path in Biomedical Engineering — A Conversation with Dr. Jose Rios Lizarraga

Office Hours with Liz Wayne
• 46 min
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What does life really look like after earning a biomedical engineering degree? In this episode of Office Hours with Liz Wayne, Liz sits down with Dr. Jose Rios Lizarraga, Director of Formulation Sciences at Nuvalent, to unpack the realities of building a career in the biopharmaceutical industry, from graduate school uncertainty to landing that first job and beyond. Jose shares how a single undergraduate course sparked his passion for drug delivery, leading him from research at MIT to a PhD at Cornell and ultimately into pharmaceutical development. Along the way, he opens up about the challenges of breaking into industry, the pressure of the job search, and the importance of learning how to translate academic experience into real-world impact.