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Episode Synopsis
The best careers are ones that include twists, turns, barriers, and breakthroughs. And today we get to chat with Michelle Holko, a strategic innovator working at the intersection of biology, technology, and security. She has built a career integrating security into biotechnology and health to promote innovations in biomedical research. In our conversation, we chat about the incredible work she has been able to contribute to over the course of her career.
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Michelle is currently a Principal Architect and Scientist at Google working as the technical lead with the Google Cloud healthcare and life sciences team. Before Google, she served in government as a White House Presidential Innovation Fellow (PIF), where she worked with the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Department of Defense (DoD) Chemical and Biological Defense Program (CBDP), the NIH’s All of Us Research Program, HHS BARDA, OSTP, and NSC. Whew, that was all at one job!
Prior to joining the PIF program, she worked with DARPA and HHS BARDA, and was a fellow in the 2018 cohort of Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Health Security’s Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Initiative where I first met Michelle. Michelle was trained in genomics and bioinformatics, and she has worked on pandemic prevention and preparedness, infectious diseases, cancer, biosurveillance, biosecurity, data science, emerging technologies, health technologies, precision medicine, cybersecurity, and machine learning/artificial intelligence. Basically, if it's been a hot topic, she’s worked on it!
Her advice for our listeners? Lean into experiences that scare you, pay attention to what you don’t like just as much as what you do like, let your good work speak for you, and try to be like water.
I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as we did!
Find Michelle on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-holko/
about the PIF program - https://presidentialinnovationfellows.gov/
Check out Michelle's PIF profile - https://presidentialinnovationfellows.gov/fellows/michelle-holko/
Subscribe to the Titus Talks newsletter!
Michelle is currently a Principal Architect and Scientist at Google working as the technical lead with the Google Cloud healthcare and life sciences team. Before Google, she served in government as a White House Presidential Innovation Fellow (PIF), where she worked with the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Department of Defense (DoD) Chemical and Biological Defense Program (CBDP), the NIH’s All of Us Research Program, HHS BARDA, OSTP, and NSC. Whew, that was all at one job!
Prior to joining the PIF program, she worked with DARPA and HHS BARDA, and was a fellow in the 2018 cohort of Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Health Security’s Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Initiative where I first met Michelle. Michelle was trained in genomics and bioinformatics, and she has worked on pandemic prevention and preparedness, infectious diseases, cancer, biosurveillance, biosecurity, data science, emerging technologies, health technologies, precision medicine, cybersecurity, and machine learning/artificial intelligence. Basically, if it's been a hot topic, she’s worked on it!
Her advice for our listeners? Lean into experiences that scare you, pay attention to what you don’t like just as much as what you do like, let your good work speak for you, and try to be like water.
I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as we did!
Find Michelle on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-holko/
about the PIF program - https://presidentialinnovationfellows.gov/
Check out Michelle's PIF profile - https://presidentialinnovationfellows.gov/fellows/michelle-holko/
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