A year ago, I probably would have found it hard to imagine a world where my day would be less about capturing image stacks and more about stacked calendars. Yet here I was—a freshly minted postdoc who had stepped out of academia’s familiar chaos into the vast, varied world of industry. And judging by the crowd at Hyphen Project’s BioBusiness Summer School 2025, I wasn’t alone. The room brimmed with PhDs and postdocs plotting their own moves beyond the bench, CVs ready and LinkedIn pages gleaming.
