the parents need to save the children in the biomedical community http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/04/09/1404402111.full.pdf+html

i think this PNAS article gets a lot of things right about we need to correct our community of biomedical scientists. http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/04/09/1404402111.full.pdf+html

cdk inhibitors as a promising drug... hopefully basic cell cycle research can make this work even better

www.nytimes.com/2014/04/07/business/breast-cancer-drug-shows-groundbreaking-results.html

lab picture day

the happy group from left to right, devon, dave, kurt, oguzhan, me, clayton, jenny, amy (the happy graduate) mardo, andreas, amanda and jon

everyone has won and all shall be given prizes said the dodo in Alice and Wonderland

This is one of my mentor Fred Cross's favorite quotes and I think it makes some sense when applied to scientists:

'First it marked out a race-course, in a sort of circle, (`the exact shape doesn't matter,' it said,) and then all the party were placed along the course, here and there. There was no `One, two, three, and away,' but they began running when they liked, and left off when they liked, so that it was not easy to know when the race was over. However, when they had been running half an hour or so, and were quite dry again, the Dodo suddenly called out `The race is over!' and they all crowded round it, panting, and asking, `But who has won?'

This question the Dodo could not answer without a great deal of thought, and it sat for a long time with one finger pressed upon its forehead (the position in which you usually see Shakespeare, in the pictures of him), while the rest waited in silence. At last the Dodo said, `Everybody has won, and all must have prizes.' '