Joe Labuz
During his time at UM Joe Labuz was an active participant in the STPP program while completing his PhD in Biomedical Engineering, publishing on dual use science, conducting original research in Higher Education management, and organizing a 50+ person symposium on policy issues in biotech and the life sciences. Joe currently manages client development for the Pharmaceutical and Medical Products Practice of McKinsey & Company, a consulting firm, where he regularly draws on the multidisciplinary thinking and technical/non-technical communication skills he honed as an STPP trainee. He continues to follow issues of science and technology policy pertaining to pharmaceutical approval and regulation, higher education, and especially public transit having ridden 44 different metro systems worldwide (and counting!).