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Nature Medicine 15, 465 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nm0509-465

A master's degree with a business spin gains popularity

Genevive Bjorn1

  1. Maui, Hawaii

Working as a quality control tester in a juice factory, Brendan Tierney knew he wanted to go back to school and pursue science. But Tierney faced two problems: he did not know which specific area of biomedical science to focus on, nor did he have a sense of how he could eventually use graduate training to land a better job.