How a Job Title Led to a Life in Research

Member spotlight: Javara: How a Mistaken Job Title Led Jennifer Byrne to a Life in Clinical Research

“Ask fifty clinical research professionals how they entered the field in the first place, and you’re likely to get fifty different answers.

Now, here’s number fifty-one: over thirty years ago Jennifer Byrne arrived on day one of her new job out of college thinking she was walking into a pharma sales rep position.

I wore a business suit because that’s how pharmaceutical sales reps are supposed to show up,” she recalls today, laughing. “I had a briefcase that my family had just given to me.

Derailed a bit at first to discover she’d in fact been hired as a clinical researcher, Byrne realized quickly. “I had found my life’s work.” Or, perhaps more accurately, it found her. And over three decades on, she’s CEO of Javara, a founding member of the Association for Multisite Research Corporations (AMRC) and a leading voice in clinical trial innovation.”

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