TY - JOUR
T1 - Lucky, times ten
T2 - A career in Texas science
AU - Russell, David W
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments—I thank Mike Brown, Joe Goldstein, Helen Hobbs, and Linda Spremulli for critical reading of the manuscript, and Nancy Heard for the figures appearing in this manuscript as well as all of those I have published over the last several decades. The research described in this article was supported by National Institutes of Health Grants HL01287, HL20948, HL31346, HD38127, DK47657, AR51943, and DK81182; and by grants from the Robert A. Welch Foundation, the Eugene McDermott Foundation, the Perot Family Foundation, and the Clayton Foundation for Research.
PY - 2018/12/7
Y1 - 2018/12/7
N2 - On January 21, 2017, I received an E-mail from Herb Tabor that I had been simultaneously hoping for and dreading for several years: an invitation to write a “Reflections” article for the Journal of Biological Chemistry. On the one hand, I was honored to receive an invitation from Herb, a man I have admired for over 40 years, known for 24 years, and worked with as a member of the Editorial Board and Associate Editor of the Journal of Biological Chemistry for 17 years. On the other hand, the invitation marked the waning of my career as an academic scientist. With these conflicting emotions, I wrote this article with the goals of recording my career history and recognizing the many mentors, trainees, and colleagues who have contributed to it and, perhaps with pretension, with the desire that students who are beginning a career in research will find inspiration in the path I have taken and appreciate the importance of luck.
AB - On January 21, 2017, I received an E-mail from Herb Tabor that I had been simultaneously hoping for and dreading for several years: an invitation to write a “Reflections” article for the Journal of Biological Chemistry. On the one hand, I was honored to receive an invitation from Herb, a man I have admired for over 40 years, known for 24 years, and worked with as a member of the Editorial Board and Associate Editor of the Journal of Biological Chemistry for 17 years. On the other hand, the invitation marked the waning of my career as an academic scientist. With these conflicting emotions, I wrote this article with the goals of recording my career history and recognizing the many mentors, trainees, and colleagues who have contributed to it and, perhaps with pretension, with the desire that students who are beginning a career in research will find inspiration in the path I have taken and appreciate the importance of luck.
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U2 - 10.1074/jbc.X118.005918
DO - 10.1074/jbc.X118.005918
M3 - Article
C2 - 30530852
AN - SCOPUS:85058193572
VL - 293
SP - 18804
EP - 18827
JO - Journal of Biological Chemistry
JF - Journal of Biological Chemistry
SN - 0021-9258
IS - 49
ER -