A research internship at a global pharmaceutical changed this former college basketball player’s career

In 2022, Sade Iriah was pursuing a doctorate in neuroscience at Northeastern University when she seized the opportunity to embed herself in industry research at Takeda Pharmaceutical, a Japanese multinational biopharmaceutical company.

Iriah worked with the imaging team at Takeda and says the experience was “amazing.”

“They really allowed me to be involved with the team in a way that wasn’t just like on-looking but actually doing and participating in the science,” she says.

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