After all, he himself left a wildly successful career in basic physics to explore how to use basic research to solve the energy-and-climate crisis, and as the current director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab in California, he has asked other scientists to do the same.
A tiny fraction of these students pursue career in basic science research, resulting in concerns of not having enough number of basic scientists with deep clinical knowledge.
Most of his Army career, after basic training at Fort Jackson, near Columbia, S.C., was spent in Germany, where he was part of an American effort to recruit foreign soldiers.
When I entered graduate school in the fall of 1992 in the department of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University, I had every intention of pursuing a research career in basic science.
Twenty-three years later, Barch has meshed her clinical experience with a thriving career in basic and translational brain science, most of it focused on schizophrenia.
He later became a neuroscientist, now at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, spending most of his career doing basic research on how the brain's cells form connections during learning.
These programs focus on "Research Success Skills" (scientific writing, granstmanship, peer review, lab management, and public speaking) and "Career Development" (basic job search skills, careers in industry, alternative career paths, and pursuing an academic career).
In a career with basic, clinical, and even entrepreneurial components, a single mentor is rarely sufficient: Building a team of mentors is a good investment in yourself and your career.
