Susan Knox, Ph.D.

Dr. Susan Knox currently works in Healthcare Professional Marketing at Amgen, a biotechnology company, supporting an antibody drug that treats Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder and Immunoglobulin G4-related disease. In her role, she develops healthcare professional messaging and marketing strategies for current and future indications in the pipeline.

Susan is also the CEO and co-founder of Your Edvantage (YourEdvantage.com, @Your_Edvantage), an academic and career coaching company established in 2019. Susan has hosted career development workshops for individuals from Fortune 500 companies, non-profits, and corporate teams. Additionally, she has coached 50+ individuals through various career stages, resulting in acceptances into top-choice undergraduate and graduate programs, summer research experiences, and employment offers.

Previously, Susan worked in Healthcare Professional Marketing & Sales at Kenvue (formerly Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc.), where she led strategic planning and execution for Aveeno’s skin health portfolio. She developed healthcare professional messaging, scientific education, and go-to-market strategies for new innovations, while managing national conference activations, digital campaigns, and scientific training for a field sales team. In addition to her marketing role, Susan served as the North America sponsor for STEM community engagement at Kenvue, collaborating with organizations like the Smithsonian Science Education Center and Liberty Science Center to deliver scientific programming to over 2,000 students annually.

Prior to her shift to more business-focused roles, Susan was a Principal Scientist at Kenvue, where she led innovation programs for Listerine and was recognized as an Emerging Technical Leader. Prior to her transition to consumer health, Susan worked in pharma on a pre-clinical translational science team at Spark Therapeutics, a gene therapy company. She received the Spark Innovator Award for her work developing new modalities of vectorized engineered biologics and analytical techniques to advance gene therapy platforms.

Susan received her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley and her M.S. from Yale University. Her graduate work focused on the delivery of therapeutic enzymes to the cytosol of mammalian cells using cell-permeant miniature proteins. While at Yale, she was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and received a Certificate of College Teaching Preparation. She attended The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) for her undergraduate studies where she was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, graduated with a B.S. in Chemistry and a minor in Biology, and conducted research in multiple labs across the country. Susan is an alumna of the first class of NJ Governor's STEM Scholars.

Outside of work, Susan enjoys reading, spending time with her two golden retrievers, and working with individuals and organizations on career/professional development.