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Opportunities for Ph.D. scientists to interact with patients appear to be growing.

Cultivating and nurturing your mentoring relationships are essential, particularly in the complex landscape of clinical and translational research.

Education debt can make it difficult for physician-scientists to stay on a research course.

Regan Theiler balances her clinical work in the delivery room with lab research on infectious diseases.

Medical students and physician-scientist trainees suffer from high rates of depression and often are reluctant to admit to their condition.

Is an M.D.-Ph.D. program right for me? Where should I apply? Where should I go?

Serendipity, ha rd work, and good communication formed the core of an unlikely collaboration that resulted in a new technique for measuring hormone levels.

An encounter with a lupus patient crystallized one scientist's concept of "translational research" and fundamentally changed the focus of her lab.

PECASE winner Benjamin tenOever is an unconventional virologist who's working to make his discoveries clinically relevant.

Electronic patient data and research repositories mean new opportunities in medical informatics.

Deepali Kumar and Atul Humar credit their success in achieving work-life balance to their shared specialty.

Recovery Act funding will give a boost to a field focused on containing health care costs while maintaining quality.

Despite layoffs, pharmaceutical companies are hiring researchers to strengthen their early drug-development programs.

Regulations at every step of drug development mean jobs for regulatory scientists at every step, too.

A complex fabric of researchers -- geneticists, psychologists, neuroscientists, physicians -- are working to understand autism.

People with scientific training are needed to explore ethical, legal, and social issues involved in bringing science into the clinic.

Young physician-scientists must learn to thrive despite a divided culture and rigid, anachronistic institutional structures and expectations.

Deanna Barch is developing neuroimaging and other tools to speed the development of sorely needed treatments for schizophrenia.

D.V.M.-Ph.D.s are uniquely qualified to do research in animal models and translate findings across species -- including humans.

Harvard physician-scientist Lynn Bry has developed an informatics system for matching biological samples to research needs.