Course Description
Please join us for this free webinar series where FAES faculty expand on topics they teach in their FAES courses.
FAES Educational Webinar Series: Career Readiness in Biosciences – Upskilling to Industry Best Practices
July 25, 2025 from 12 - 1pm ET
Location: Live Online (The link to join the webinar will be sent to you via email at 11:15AM on July 25, 2025)
Speaker: Amrita Madabushi, Ph.D., Founder & CEO, EmpowerBio (BIOL 002)
This webinar will introduce attendees to practical strategies for preparing for careers in the biosciences through upskilling aligned with industry best practices. EmpowerBio leverages workforce and real-world insights to bridge the gap between academic training and bioscience industry expectations. Participants will explore actionable approaches to building career readiness, including credentialing, transferable skills development, exposure to good practices and regulatory standards, and techniques for aligning academic experience with industry needs. Attendees will leave the session with tools and ideas to transition confidently into their unique career paths.
Amrita Madabushi holds a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and has over 15 years of experience in higher education, focused on biotechnology training and career transition support. She advances workforce readiness through academe-industry collaboration. In addition to serving as CEO of EmpowerBio, she is a Collegiate Professor of Biotechnology at the University of Maryland Global Campus. She volunteers as Co-Vice Chair of Women In Bio – Capital Region, and serves in leadership roles with the Maryland Collegiate STEM Conference and the DMV BioEducators Network. She is also the instructor for our upcoming in-person workshop BIOL 002 I Core Competencies in Laboratory Techniques + Optional Lab Skills Evaluation running from August 18 - 22 with an optional exam on September 19.
Click here to view an archive of our past webinars, many with full recordings.
Join FAES for the Following Upcoming Events:
Antibody Engineering in Medicine: Phage Display and Nanobodies
July 8, 2025 from 11:45 – 1:00 pm ET (must arrive by 12PM)
Location: FAES Learning Labs Classrooms
Speaker: Mitchell Ho, Ph.D., Senior Investigator, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, NCI/ CCR
The lecture will introduce phage display technology and its application in developing nanobodies. Phage display is a high-throughput, cost-effective method for drug discovery. The Ho Lab at the NCI has constructed nanobody phage display libraries derived from sharks and camels, which possess unique features valuable for developing therapeutics to treat cancer, infectious diseases, and other human illnesses.
Virtual Information Session: FAES Fall Programming
July 10, 2025 from 12:00pm – 12:30pm ET
Location: Online Synchronous
Join the FAES Academic Programs Team to learn more about our Fall courses, workshops, and our scholarship program.
FAES Virtual Information Session: Translate Your FAES Coursework into a Hood College Graduate Degree
July 18, 2025 from 12 – 12:30 pm ET
Location: Live Online
Join us FAES and Dr. April Boulton, Associate Provost and Dean of the Graduate School at Hood College in Frederick, Maryland. Learn about flexible graduate degrees at Hood College and how your FAES coursework can count toward a Hood College degree or certificate in bioinformatics, health informatics, project management and other areas.
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The Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences (FAES) at NIH seeks to foster education and research in the biomedical sciences by providing instruction at the cutting edge of biological science and its evolving applications. Our goals also include responding to the educational and cultural needs of the NIH community and projecting FAES educational assets globally. All courses and workshops are open to the public. NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMINATORY POLICY AS TO STUDENTS FAES admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin, sex, disability, or age in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship programs, and other school-administered programs.
