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PREFACE In July 2002, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), two leading philanthropies that support scientific research and education, held an intensive three-and-a-half-day course in scientific management for about 130 senior postdoctoral fellows and newly appointed faculty who had received research training or career development grants from these organizations. BWF and HHMI developed the course because they thought it was vitally important that these beginning scientists receive some formal training in preparing for their new roles as managers of independent research laboratories. Sessions dealt with an array of competencies—including job negotiation, grantsmanship, laboratory leadership, time management, data management, publishing, and mentoring—that could be broadly characterized as “scientific management” skills. The course drew highly favorable feedback from the participants. To reach a wider audience, BWF and HHMI adapted the session content into a manual titled Making the Right Moves: A Practical Guide to Scientific Management for Postdocs and New Faculty and made it freely available in both a hard-copy version and online at http://www.hhmi.org/labmanagement. Guided by evaluation findings, BWF and HHMI revised some elements of the original course and presented a retooled version in June 2005. Both organizations recognized, however, that even their pooled resources could not meet the enormous need for this type of training. From this realization grew an idea to invest in a different approach—a program to train “trainers” and potentially multiply the impact. HHMI and BWF formed the Partners in Scientific Management Program by inviting representatives of academic institutions and professional societies interested in improving the training of early-career research scientists to apply to help plan the 2005 BWF-HHMI course and to attend and critique the course itself. In exchange, applicants pledged to stage training events in scientific management suitable for their own constituencies, ranging from workshops at professional society meetings to full-blown programs in a university setting. Representatives of the partner organizations (see page xiii, “Contributors”) also participated in the development of this guide by sharing their experiences in organizing their training events, contributing materials, and reviewing manuscript drafts. ix
Training Scientists to Make the Right Moves This guide, which distills the collective wisdom of the partners, BWF and HHMI course organizers, and others with extensive experience in scientific management training, is a companion to Making the Right Moves. Making the Right Moves is about concrete course content—what participants ultimately see and hear. This guide is about the discrete steps involved in course planning and follow-up—the behind-the-scenes activities that are invisible to participants but essential to a successful training event. BWF and HHMI believe that training in scientific management should be available to all researchers early in their careers. Making the Right Moves and Training Scientists to Make the Right Moves: A Practical Guide to Developing Programs in Scientific Management were devised to help anyone who takes on the important task of providing such training to the next generation of biomedical researchers. Enriqueta C. Bond, Ph.D. President Burroughs Wellcome Fund Thomas R. Cech, Ph.D. President Howard Hughes Medical Institute Peter J. Bruns, Ph.D. Vice President Grants and Special Programs Howard Hughes Medical Institute x
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