{"id":17376,"date":"2023-07-05T15:34:22","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T19:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/?p=17376"},"modified":"2024-06-25T21:49:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T01:49:33","slug":"launchpad-jesse-bragger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/launchpad-jesse-bragger\/","title":{"rendered":"Launchpad: Jesse Bragger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death globally, taking nearly 18 million lives annually, according to the World Health Organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Bristol Myers Squibb, Jesse Bragger \u201921 is doing early drug discovery research that could one day help cure or treat a variety of cardiomyopathies. In her lab, she tests novel pharmacological compounds to determine their safety and efficacy. \u201cIt\u2019s one of the early steps in the process before a drug can potentially reach the clinical level,\u201d says Bragger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A graduate of the University\u2019s Honors School, Bragger majored in biology with a concentration in molecular cell physiology and a minor in statistics. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t be working in the role I am now if it wasn\u2019t for my experiences at Monmouth,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n

Why I Chose Monmouth<\/h2>\n\n\n

I knew I\u2019d get hands-on research experience as an undergraduate, and the scholarship money I received made Monmouth the most affordable option. Also, I was excited by the state-of-the-art science building that was being completed<\/a>; I see a lot of similarities between that building and where I work now.<\/p>\n\n\n

How I Got Here<\/h2>\n\n\n

The experience I got doing three-and-a-half years of research with Professor Megan Phifer-Rixey, which included working on a global study that was published in Science<\/em><\/a>, opened the door. When I interviewed at BMS, they said it sounded like I had completed a grad school program.<\/p>\n\n\n

My Career Goal<\/h2>\n\n\n

I want to advance within BMS and continue my research, and I still want to attend graduate school. Science is constantly changing, and I always want to keep learning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The January 2021 graduate is an associate research scientist at Bristol Myers Squibb. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":17379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"image_focus":"{\"x\":30,\"y\":23}","hide_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[93,81],"class_list":["post-17376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-back","tag-alumni-donor-profiles","tag-alumni-profile"],"thumbnail":"\"\"","catString":"The Back","issue":"Spring\/Summer 2023","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17383,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17376\/revisions\/17383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}