PhD Accelerator Student Spotlight

Cierra Buckman is the founder of TrialON, building software to improve clinical trial administration and help research move faster and more effectively. 

Among the Christensen Center’s most actively supported PhD fellows, she has earned a GoBig Award, completed the PhD Research Accelerator, and refined the product as a Product Lab client.

Cierra has also completed the I&E Graduate Certificate, participated in the PhD Innovators program, received funding through the Alison Bernstein Venture Activation Fund, was one of eight PhD students selected for the Graduate School’s Emerging Leaders Institute, and competed in First Flight’s March Madness Pitch competition.