Pamela Schehu is a biochemistry major at Northeastern University
On May 4th 2022, Pamela Schehu spoke with BioBuilder Founder, Dr. Natalie Kuldell. She spoke about how she came to Boston with her family from Albania. Neither of her parents work in science related fields.
As a high school student at West Roxbury Academy in Boston, Pamela participated in the BioBuilder Apprenticeship program, which helped place her into a summer internship position with Codiak Bioscience in Cambridge, MA. As a college student she attended Northeastern University, earning a degree in Biochemistry and a minor in Psychology. As a co-op student in the protein discovery group at BMS, she found her BioBuilder lab skills and internship work at biotech startup were easily transferable to work at such a large company. Her next step is Dental School.