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Mar 2024

27m 13s

4 - Should I Go to Graduate School or In...

Joint Biomedical Engineering at UNC and NC State

About this episode

Today we sat down with David Probst, Ph.D. student in Joint BME, to talk about his previous research and development work with biosensors at Medtronic and his current experience as a Ph.D. student at UNC.

David and host Devin Hubbard cover the relationship between business development and R&D, how to know if an advanced degree program is right for you, and the skills that you can acquire in industry and academia to support you in your biomedical engineering career.

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