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Valerie Marie Weaver1

  • 1Center for Bioengineering and Tissue Regeneration, Department of Surgery, and Departments of Anatomy and Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research, and UCSF Helen Diller Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143 Valerie.Weaver@ucsfmedctr.org.

Molecular Biology of the Cell
|November 1, 2014
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Scientific environments and mentorship significantly shape a trainee's development and career success. Diverse interactions and interdisciplinary exposure foster research vision and personal happiness.

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