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Though the competition may be stiff, getting into such a high profile field has its own career rewards.

"By going to different labs," says Edvard Moser, "You learn different ways of thinking and you can create bridges between sub-disciplines and find something unexpected."

"Try and identify the people that can really teach you and help you very quickly," says Diego Centonze.

"It is better for marketability to be someone considered to have expertise in murine T cell immunology than someone who considers themselves an expert on how to protect a mouse from anthrax," says Altmann.

Stephen James: "As a scientist, you must be willing to work toward making a product." Gaining new knowledge for its own sake it not enough.

Young scientists have to be willing to learn about the commercialisation of new products and the related market if they are to play an important role in developing European biotech into a more mature industry.

This is an unusual position; I will have little bureaucracy and limited teaching.

I've also learned that entrepreneurship is not about the pursuit of fast money; it's about achieving a long-sought personal goal.

Not only does Barroso find her research fascinating, she also finds it easy to grab the interest of her family and friends when she explains what she does--a rare quality in a scientific job.

He has demanded much from himself and his colleagues ever since he was young.

Many Spanish trainees have been forced to start their doctorates without financial help.

Answering these six questions can help you choose your career path without having to make major course corrections.

Identifying and addressing self-confidence issues can help early-career scientists make swifter progress.

One of the last sessions at the 2013 AAAS Annual Meeting looked at transformative research and the factors that facilitate it—or don't.

Tony Kouzarides also has a strong commitment to asking what he calls the "right questions" and an unusual willingness to bet on his instincts.

In Vienna, Eastern and central European scientists gathered to network and learn how to be more competitive for ERC grants.

Investigations by The Guardian newspaper uncover disparities in the rates at which whites and minorities are admitted to competitive programs at Cambridge and Oxford universities.
 

Fátima Al-Shahrour is working to interpret the genome to help select more effective drugs for cancer patients.