The transition phase: preparing to launch a laboratory

Kara L McKinley; Allison L Didychuk; Dequina A Nicholas; Christina M Termini

doi:10.1016/j.tibs.2022.05.002

The transition phase: preparing to launch a laboratory

Trends Biochem Sci. 2022 Oct;47(10):814-818. doi: 10.1016/j.tibs.2022.05.002. Epub 2022 May 26.

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Kara L McKinley¹, Allison L Didychuk², Dequina A Nicholas³, Christina M Termini⁴

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¹ Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
² Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA; Department of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
³ Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, School of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA.
⁴ Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, USA. Electronic address: ctermini@fredhutch.org.

Abstract

The process of starting a laboratory varies between institutions. However, there are universal tasks all investigators will need to address when launching their laboratories. In this piece, we provide a brief summary of considerations for incoming group leaders to centralize this information for the scientific community.

Keywords: career development; career transitions; faculty; group leaders; management.

The transition phase: preparing to launch a laboratory

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Grants and funding