BookSeward B. Rutkove.
Contents:
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.