Office Hours: Career Pathways for PhDs is dedicated to helping people with doctorates explore careers from academia to industry!
Host/Show Creator: Dr. Jasmin M. Goodman
Co-Creator & Executive Producer: Dr. Maryann Kwakwa
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About Our Guest:
Dr. Trevon Swain recently joined the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) in May 2021 as a scientific reviewer. In this position, Dr. Swain is responsible for performing scientific reviews, evaluating tobacco products, and marketing applications to protect public health.
Before joining CTP, he worked as a chemist at FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) for over a decade. His veterinary research activities focus on determining biomarkers of inflammation that can be used by pharmaceutical companies to develop therapeutics to control inflammation in food-producing animals.
Dr. Swain holds a BSc. in Chemistry from Hampton University and Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Maryland, College Park.
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