For today’s special episode of SC@L, Vasi Salameti interviews fellow CSCRM PhD student Alice Vickers about her recent experience doing an industry placement as part of her PhD. Alice spent 6 months working as an analyst at M Ventures based in Amsterdam, the venture capital arm of Merck Industries. Hear all about what she got up to, how industry differs from academia, how VC’s assess pitches, and why the process from bench to drug production takes time...

(All views expressed by Alice in this interview are her own and do not reflect those of M Ventures or Merck KGaA)