About Kevin: Kevin is Executive Vice President, Research and Development for Jasper Therapeutics, a biotechnology company developing and commercializing safer conditioning agents to allow for expanded use of curative therapy with stem cell transplants and gene therapies. He is also an adjunct professor of medicine at Yale School of Medicine. In previous roles, Kevin served as Chief Medical Officer at NextCure and Vice President and head of antibody clinical development at Incyte. He joined Incyte from AstraZeneca, where he was Senior Medical Director, overseeing global medicines development in oncology. Kevin began his biopharma industry experience at Bristol Myers Squibb, where he led early development programs and was responsible for authoring and managing first-in-human clinical trials.

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Broadcom MASTERS finalists designed gliders in a virtual space during a challenge hosted by the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.

Alumni celebrated 10 years of the Broadcom MASTERS over Zoom, listening to speakers discuss topics ranging from succeeding in high school to sustainability and public health.

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As we head into the Thanksgiving holiday this week, this one may feel particularly poignant. Many of us will take a moment to consider the loved ones and things for which we are grateful. In the last few years, where so much has been lost, we are thankful for the scientists without whom vaccines would not have been made possible and the courageous teachers and administrators who have continued to educate our nation’s youth through a pandemic.

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