Nowhere is mentoring more important than in the world of medicine. Here are six mentoring tips from the business world that could handily apply to your lab. Every physician and researcher fills the role of an apprentice in the early years of his or her career. The guidance of seasoned experts is vital to mastering...
John and Benita Katzenellenbogen, PhDs, are partners in both life and in the lab. Endocrine News asked this award-winning couple about their careers, their research, and, of course, how they met. For the first time in history, the Endocrine Society’s 2016 Fred Conrad Koch Lifetime Achievement Award was awarded to a married couple, Benita and... For researchers who find their published work getting lost among other authors with similar names, a new system called ORCID may be a solution. When Jun Yang, PhD, an endocrinologist at the Hudson Institute of Medical Research, does a quick search of her name in PubMed, she gets 2,212 hits. If she looks for “Yang...
Self-experimentation has a long and noble — and Nobel-winning — history in medical breakthroughs. However, due to collaborative studies and improved technology, these methods have been largely relegated to late-night movies…just ask Dr. Jekyll! As any scientist knows, getting a new drug, device, or procedure to the human trial stage requires a Herculean effort. It...
Endocrine News talks to Márta Korbonits, MD, PhD, at the Queen Mary University of London about her research in seeking the mutations behind a familial adenoma. About one in every thousand individuals will develop a pituitary adenoma, a noncancerous but disruptive tumor on the pituitary gland that can induce a variety negative side effects. But,...
Scientists weigh in on what products they have discovered that have made their lab lives a little easier.
Whether it’s to make room for new equipment or to adhere to upgraded energy standards, if your lab hasn’t been redesigned in over a decade, you might be due for a change. Laboratories require valuable real estate, of which institutions generally have a finite amount. Scientists must often compete with peers for space to pursue...
Endocrine News talks to Philip Kern, MD, at the University of Kentucky about the phenomenon of “beige” fat and what it means for the future of obesity research. Heat usually melts fat — like butter in a sunbeam — but in mammals, cold may actually burn off adipose tissue. For “brown fat,” this is no...
