Research and Development - Communication - Impact
I spent 4+ years doing cancer research before realizing I knew almost nothing about what happens to science after the lab. That gap bothered me enough to do something about it.
Most researchers are more capable than their CVs suggest - they just don't have the language to say it. CVLab started as a side project to help a few friends. It became something bigger: 100+ researchers mentored, a growing community of scientists figuring out what comes next.
Nobody taught me what a SATT was during my PhD. La Valorisation exists because that information shouldn't be reserved for insiders - it should reach every researcher, early enough to matter.
The hardest part of leaving academia isn't finding a job - it's letting go of the belief that your PhD is only useful in a lab.
I did my PhD in oncology. Cancer research. The kind of field where the distance between a discovery and a patient who needs it can feel unbridgeable. That gap convinced me early that the most capable science is not the science that gets published - it's the science that leaves the lab.
Al Hajj et al. 2025 - "Ctf18-dependent localization of interstitial telomeric sequences to nuclear pore complexes prevents chromosome fragility" - Nucleic Acids Research (IF 16.6)
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