Shoa Naqvi

Vifor Pharma
Shoa has a PhD in Biotechnology from the University of Münster and is currently Scientific Project Manager at Vifor Pharma.

Articles by Shoa Naqvi

Phd Skills That Landed Me My Corporate Job!

Transitioning from a PhD in Biotechnology to the industry of my choice (scientific communication and marketing) involved an intense period of application and rejection. Every time I got a rejection letter, I feared that the industry probably did not want fresh graduates like me, that they wanted someone with years of experience. These were moments…

8 Basic Points to Remember Before Expressing Proteins in Bacterial Systems

8 Basic Points to Remember Before Expressing Proteins in Bacterial Systems

As a protein biochemist and a Ph.D. student, I was given the task to express a eukaryotic protein in a bacterial system. And to say that I was having a hard time would be an understatement. It took me many PCRs, cloning and transformations to get to the right construct that would eventually express the desired…