acmedsci published this video item, entitled “Why you should get a mentor during COVID | Dr Gemma Modinos” – below is their description.
“I’m not only in distress about the continuity of my own research and career, but also about those of all the postdocs and PhD students in my lab. That’s why having a mentor to talk to during this time has been extremely valuable.”
Dr Gemma Modinos is an Academy SUSTAIN participant and mentee, and a Sir Henry Dale Fellow and Senior Lecturer at King’s College London. She is also the recently elected Chair of the Young Academy of Europe. Her research is focusing on the role that emotional pathways in the brain may play in the development of schizophrenia in order to seek new therapeutic targets.
“For many of us in the biomedical sciences, COVID has meant that we couldn’t access the facilities or the participants that we needed for our research. For me this has been a pause of over nine months.
“Connect with people in a similar situation to you. And if you can, try and identify a mentor.”
Watch our corresponding video with Gemma’s mentor sharing her perspective: https://youtu.be/z6Ec7Nq193M
Find out more about the Academy’s one-to-one mentoring programme for post-doctoral and independent biomedical and health researchers:
https://acmedsci.ac.uk/grants-and-schemes/mentoring-and-other-schemes/mentoring-programme
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