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- How to Manage People as a New Investigator
We recently hosted three newly independent investigators who run research teams humming with activity and people, who told us what it takes to manage a lab full of humans in all their idiosyncratic glory. Here are their tips:
Defining Expectations and Gathering Feedback
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- A Lesson Learned the Hard Way
Periodically I’d like to share a few nuggets of wisdom I’ve learned in my efforts to help guide faculty through the travails of a career in biomedical research. Since I spend a lot of time in winter and spring reviewing grants, that’s where I am going to start. I’m often asked wh...
- Don’t Miss the Deal Breakers: Nine Questions for New Lab Staff Hires
Hooray! You’ve set up a lab. You have a scale and everything. Now the applicants are pounding down your door looking forward to helping you get the Nobel Prize. Before you hire the most enthusiastic person with the best grades, be sure you include some questions that could be dea...
- Play and Learn! CCTS Launches Kaizen-based Game to Teach Scientific Reproducibility
To help young investigators meet an impending NIH policy requiring formal training in scientific rigor and reproducibility, CCTS has launched a new web-based quiz game. Based on the Kaizen (Japanese for “continuous improvement”) platform developed by CCTS Informatics, this strate...
- The Recruitment Tool You Didn’t Know You Have
If you are based at one of these 165 US institutions and you’re looking to recruit volunteers for your research study, you need to check out ResearchMatch.org! ResearchMatch offers a completely free way to find potential research participants from a growing pool that now include...
- It’s National Science Meeting Time! Nine Protips on Meeting, Greeting and Getting It Done Like a Rockstar
Congrats....you are off to that awesome annual meeting you adore where your science friends chat you up, cheer you on and buy you a beer. Here's some protips on making the most of your time, some fun things to do to pass the time and a stern look over my glasses for...
- Why You Should Read The Creative Habit
So you’re not a dancer. You’re not a musician. You’re not an artist or a poet. Why read this book? Because you have ideas: ideas for new population studies, new treatments for disease, and new ways to look at data. And this book will give you the habits that beget more good ...
- Productivity Tip #7: Reclaim Your Meeting
How often do you hear a colleague say, "I’m so excited to attend today’s group meeting," or a student remark, "How is it possible that my group meetings are so stimulating and engaging?"
What’s that? You’ve never heard anyone say those things? Me neither. I dread meetings ...
- Mentorship, Pharmacogenetics, and the Power of Play: Richard Ho
Although he didn’t originally envision a career in pediatric oncology, Richard Ho fell in love with it during a rotation in his fourth year of medical school. The relationships he developed with the patients’ families were too rewarding to give up. “It’s obviously an intense em...
- Captain Your Own Ship
"My mentor [name here] won't tell me what to do!" Twice in the same week is two times too many for this complaint. From faculty members no less.
Mentors don't choose for you. Mentors are not your personal decider-on-call. Mentors are not the captain of your ship. You are.
As a ...
