Joshua ElkingtonFounder and General Partner at Axial

Going from medicine to industry

Name: Going from medicine to industry
Uploaded: 2024-01-27T17:53:24+00:00
Duration: 1 min
Channel: Joshua Elkington
Description: In this talk, the speaker shares his personal trajectory from aspiring physician to a career in the pharmaceutical industry. He recounts early childhood…

27 Jan 2024 · 1 min

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In this talk, the speaker shares his personal trajectory from aspiring physician to a career in the pharmaceutical industry. He recounts early childhood ambitions, his medical training in internal medicine and oncology at UCSF, and his subsequent roles at Bristol‑Myers Squibb and Genentech. The central theme is a shift from traditional clinical practice to a mindset of constantly asking, “why can’t we do better?” and applying clinical research expertise to drive product development and innovation in industry.

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context. I want to tell you how I got here and really make the move between what I consider a life in traditional medicine into a life of constantly asking, why can't we do better? Which is really the theme of my little talk today. So, I got here from a lifetime of wanting to be a doctor, starting when at least as captured in family photos from the age of 10 where I showed two traits that stay with me. One is I'm a doctor. And the other is I'm bossy. So this is a picture of me bossing around my sister and my cousin in my own little medical practice in my family basement. After doing my training at UCSF in internal medicine and medical oncology, I, I ended up at Bristol-Myers Squibb initially and then at Genentech, where I was able to use training in clinical research to innovate in product development and