To PIs. Your legacy won’t be your pubs or awards, people will forget those. Even many Nobel prize winners are forgotten eventually. Your legacy will be the people you trained. Mentor, support and treat them with respect, so they can continue to be good leaders to future trainees.
@GarciaLabMS I agree. Any grandmother knows this well.
@GarciaLabMS Poor Gertrude Elion. She transformed drug development, created acyclovir, nelarbine & AZT, the first treatments for viruses, leukemia, etc. But she’ll only be remembered for trainees. Maybe contributions count, too.
@GarciaLabMS Being a mentor is a privilege. Being a great mentor gives opportunities for a long lasting and far reaching positive impact.
@GarciaLabMS I love it when my former mentees do great! I feel sorry for those who are sad when their mentees outshine them. Scientific family matters even more than ever.