Dr. Kamens was formerly the Executive Director of Addgene. She has worked in pharma and biotech and has been doing career advising for scientists since 2003. She serves on many nonprofit boards and is an advocate for diversity and equity in science.
This is the fourth post in the Addgene Blog Mentoring for Scientists Series. I have been thinking a lot about Mentoring for over 10 years. Many successful scientists describe having a “posse” of mentors as one key to their success. But how do you find these elusive teachers, ...
“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.” - Abigail Adams, 1780 There are potential mentors all around you. This third article in the Addgene Blog Mentoring series will cover 2 of the 7 mentoring questions I set out to ...
A scientist-in-training will spend 10 or more years with a small number of formal advisors learning how to be a scientist. It is shocking how little pre-work most PhD students and postdocs do to ensure the advisors they choose will be ones that help them succeed after the ...
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own." -Benjamin Disraeli Mentor, Sponsor, Advisor, Boss – who will help me advance my science career? We spend many years becoming scientists. It takes us a decade or more for ...
