Not long after graduating with a degree in molecular and cell biology, Jason Bennett ’16 (CLAS) took a job with the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer. As an associate scientist in the company’s Clinical Diagnostics and Assay Development Department in Pearl River, New York, he helped develop procedures to measure and test different drugs and biochemical agents. It was interesting if relatively routine work, part of the elaborate process by which big pharma creates, assesses, and brings treatments to market. Then Covid happened and overnight everything changed. Now working as an automation engineer at Foundation Medicine Inc. in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Jason talked to us about his earlier experience in the vaccine trenches.
UConn Magazine: In The Vaccine Trenches
Not long after graduating with a degree in molecular and cell biology, Jason Bennett ’16 (CLAS) took a job with the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer.
Jason Bennett in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he now works. But soon after graduating, Bennett took a job at Pfizer and found himself helping develop the Covid vaccine. (Peter Morenus / UConn Photo)
