Genentech's Postdoctoral Fellows gain valuable experience while here and excellent credentials to create the careers they desire after their time in the program. To hear it from the fellows themselves, read some commentary from past postdocs. After the program, some postdoc program alumni build a career in the research organization at Genentech, while others move on to become leaders in academia, the biotechnology industry and the investment banking and venture capital worlds. Read below to get a sense of the exciting careers Genentech postdoc alumni have built in a variety of fields.

Genentech Postdoc Alumni Who Have Remained at Genentech

Avi Ashkenazi Director, Senior Staff Scientist Molecular Oncology Frederic de Sauvage Vice President Molecular Biology David Dornan Scientist Molecular Diagnostics Charlie Eigenbrot Senior Scientist Protein Engineering

Sanjeev Mariathasan Scientist Translational Oncology Paul Polakis Director, Staff Scientist Cancer Targets and Pathways Sarah Hymowitz Associate Director Structural Biology Melissa Starovasnik Senior Director Structural Biology

Ingrid Wertz Scientist Protein Engineering Minhong Yan Scientist Tumor Biology and Angiogensis Weilan Ye Senior Scientist Tumor Biology and Angiogensis

A Sampling of Genentech Postdoc Alumni Now in Academia

Kathleen Gallo Associate Professor Departments of Physiology & Biochemistry Michigan State University Christopher Garcia Assistant Professor Departments of Microbiology & Immunology and Structural Biology Stanford University School of Medicine Su Guo Assistant Professor Department of Biopharmaceutical Sciences University of California, San Francisco Craig Jordan Associate Professor of Medicine James P Wilmot Cancer Center University of Rochester School of Medicine Yves Muller Lehrstuhl für Biotechnik Institut für Microbiologie, Biochemie und Genetik Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nuernberg Germany Jeremy Nathans Professor Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics Department of Neuroscience Department of Ophthalmology Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Timothy Palzkill Professor Department of Molecular Virology & Microbiology Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Baylor College of Medicine Celia Schiffer Associate Professor Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology University of Massachusetts Medical School Avraham Yaron Senior Scientist Department of Biological Chemistry Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Gregory Weiss Associate Professor, Chemistry School of Biological Sciences University of California, Irvine

A Sampling of Genentech Postdoc Alumni Now in Industry

Paul J. Carter Vice President Antibody Technologies Seattle Genetics, Inc. Tim Clackson Chief Scientific Officer ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Max Murone Chief Operating Officer Apotech Corporation Switzerland

Bjorn Nilsson President Karo Bio James Treanor Associate Director Department of Neuroscience Amgen Inc.