Sarah Hymowitz wasn't planning on moving into industry once she finished her PhD. She applied mainly for postdoctoral positions in academia, but also included one industry laboratory, whose work she greatly admired: Genentech, where she ended up at a protein engineering lab. Hymowitz had considered going back to academia after that, but said that her time at Genentech spoiled her for wanting to go anywhere else. When a position within the company opened up toward the end of her post-doc, she grabbed it. "It's a really nice balance of basic science and doing work that might help people," she says.
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