Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center Virtual Career Development Series - Genetics alumna, Kim Bekas, PhD

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📣 Career Development Series: Finding Flexibility in a Career in Grantsmanship

Looking for a career path that keeps you connected to research while offering a different kind of flexibility after the PhD? Grantsmanship may be an option worth exploring!

The Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Office of Cancer Career Enhancement and Training is hosting the next session of its Career Development Series, featuring Kim Bekas, PhD (‘22 Genetics).

Kim currently serves as a Grants & Contracts Officer IV and Associate Director of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Research Network’s Grant Writing Group at the University of Utah.

In this Q&A-style conversation, she will share her experience building a career in grantsmanship after earning her PhD and discuss the opportunities, flexibility, and skills that can make this career path a great fit for scientists.

📅 Tuesday, December 8
🕦 11:30 a.m. CDT
💻 Virtual via Zoom

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Finding Flexibility: A Career in Grantsmanship Post-PhD

Kim Bekas, PhD (‘22 Genetics)
Grants & Contracts Officer IV
Associate Director, Obstetrics and Gynecology Research Network’s Grant Writing Group
University of Utah

Whether you're actively exploring careers beyond the bench or simply curious about where a PhD can take you, this conversation is a great opportunity to learn from an alumna who has built a career at the intersection of research, writing, and grant development.

This virtual career development series is intended for Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center trainees and features speakers with strong ties to Iowa who have pursued careers across industry, academia, government funding agencies, intellectual property, clinical laboratories, and other areas of the biomedical research ecosystem.

Tuesday, December 8, 2026 11:30am
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Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa–sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in this program, please contact Britt Hokanson in advance at 3194674217 or britt-hokanson@uiowa.edu.