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This comprehensive yet concise book introduces people at all levels of training-undergraduate, graduate, and medical students, residents, fellows, and junior faculty-to the basic joys and challenges of biomedical research. By discussing many key research issues, would-be and early-stage academics will not only be better informed about the world of biomedical research, but will learn a basic set of instructions to help jumpstart their careers. Biomedical Research: An Insider´s Guide is divided into five sections. The first focuses on decision points regarding whether or not to enter research and if so what type: basic, clinical, or translational. The second section focuses on the practicalities of pursuing medical research, including institutional review boards and animal care committees as well general suggestions regarding idea generation and collaboration. The third section covers a core aspect of research: writing-detailing the evolution of both grants and papers. The fourth section addresses a range of issues, including conferencing to patents to working with industry to obtaining philanthropic support. The final section deals with all-important broader life issues from job choices to being a mentor to thoughts on how to keep the big picture front and center. An invaluable resource that offers insightful, practical advice, Biomedical Research: An Insider´s Guide reveals how biomedical research can be both challenging and truly rewarding.

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Foreword.- PART 1: Basic considerations.- 1. So do you really want to pursue research?.- 2. What´s in store: The brighter side of medical research.- 3. What´s in store: The darker side of medical research.- 4. One degree of separation.- 5. Choosing and working with a mentor.- 6. Identifying a research niche you can call your own.- 7. Useful Definitions.- PART 2: Research Foundations and Structures.- 8. The Institutional Review Board: Do´s, Don´ts, and Nevers....- 9. Animal Care and Use Committees.- 10. Research beyond humans and vertebrates.- 11. Hiring Research Staff.- 12. Strategy and Tactics: Running a Successful Laboratory.- 13. Everything you ever wanted to know about collaboration Part 3: Successful Paper and Grant Writing.- 14. Writing a successful research paper. I-Up to the point of submission.- 15. Writing a successful research paper. II-Revising, resubmitting, and post-acceptance tasks.- 16. Funding: An overview.- 17. Where to apply for funding: making the right choices.- 18. Writing a winning grant application.- 19. Grant budgeting.- 20. Grant writing: Pearls and lumps of coal.- 21. Research Training, Fellowship, and Career grants.- 22. Grant review from the inside.- 23. Interpreting your reviews.- 24. To resubmit or not resubmit and how to do it.- Part 4: Good presentations, conferencing, networking, and other useful tools.- 25. The art of good presentation.- 26. Effective conferencing.- 27. Networking in the 21st century.- 28. Conflicts of interest.- 29. Scientific conduct and misconduct: what is right and proper, what is not, and what is somewhere in the middle.- 30. Article review and reading: being efficient and as thorough as you need to be.- 31. Patents.- 32. Working with industry.- Part 5: Career choices and life lessons.- 33. Jobs in biomedical science: seeking, landing, and changing.- 34. Academic Promotion and Titles.- 35. On being a mentor.- 36. Yardsticks of success.- 37. Research Life Lesson 1: Everything takes longer than you think, so plan for it.- 38. Research life lesson 2: A person´s research is endlessly important to them.- 39. Research Life lesson 3: Balance, timing, cycles and seeing the big picture.- 40. Research Life Lesson 4: Your career is an ultramarathon, not a sprint.- 41. Conclusion: Nothing satisfies like meaningful work.- Acknowledgements.

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