| Name | Yann Tessier |
| Degree | Online MSc, Translational Medicine |
| Year of Graduation | 2011 |
Why did you choose the University of Edinburgh?
I joined the online masters approximately 15 years into my drug safety career. It gave me the opportunity to meet (typically) mid-career scientists from various backgrounds and to put some structure on some of the knowledge I had acquired on the job.
I had previously been trained in France (as a vet with a toxicology MSc, and with a ophthalmology postgraduate certificate), and a job-related stay in Edinburgh was what made me think of the University of Edinburgh to take this course, a move that made sense at that time of my career.
Tell us about your experiences since leaving the University
Since then I have joined a biotechnology company specialising in RNA therapeutics, and I must say that without the University of Edinburgh training I would have struggled to understand much of the current drug discovery and development issues at stake in this environment. Indeed, as a vet, I previously mainly had a whole organism clinical background, but some research knowledge (in particular molecular biology) was critically missing. The Edinburgh certificate greatly filled this gap and helped me to rebound professionally.
The half-life of knowledge is around two years, so prepare to train in a life-long manner!
Yann Tessier
Alumni wisdom
The half-life of knowledge is around two years, so prepare to train in a life-long manner!