Cynthia Fuhrmann, Ph.D., is also Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at UMass Medical. She has 15 years of experience directing programs in professional skills training and career planning for early-career biomedical scientists. She founded and directs UMassMed’s Center for Biomedical Career Development. Her early research on the career interests of biomedical PhD students contributed to the growing national dialog over the past decade on the training needs of PhD scientists, including citations in reports by the NIH, Council of Graduate Schools, Science, Nature Careers, Inside Higher Ed, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. She co-authored myIDP, an interactive career-planning website hosted by the AAAS that is used by more than 190,000 early-career scientists worldwide. She serves on the advisory board for the Association of American Universities’ PhD Education Initiative. Fuhrmann holds a BS in Chemistry from UC Davis and a PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from UCSF.