Episode 27: Natalie LePera, Study Responsible Scientist in Neuropsychopharmacology

Natalie LePera graduated from Temple University in the winter of 2019, just a few months before COVID-19 led to the loss of m`any job opportunities. She has since worked in a few different companies, finding the right opportunity for her. Natalie is gaining experience in pharmacy research, working her way to some day earning a graduate degree in neuroscience/neuropharmacology or neuropsychopharmacology, a very neat field! In this episode, Natalie and I catch up about what it was like to find a job in the throes of a pandemic, how to advocate for a raise, and what we get wrong about Gen Z.

A few references you may be interested in reading more about:

• Neurodegenerative diseases, https://medlineplus.gov/degenerativenervediseases.html 
• Multiple myeloma, https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/multiple-myeloma/symptoms-causes/syc-20353378#:~:text=Multiple%20myeloma%20is%20a%20cancer,crowd%20out%20healthy%20blood%20cells. 
• Neuropharmacology: in depth in neuroscience, focus on how anything crossing blood-brain barrier impacts brain cells
• Neuropsychopharmacology, https://www.nature.com/npp/ 
• Atypical plasticity inducers: “research chemicals”
• Johns Hopkins psychedelics research, https://hopkinspsychedelic.org/ 
• R statistical software, https://www.r-project.org/ 
• PubMed, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ 

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