Success in Academic Surgery: Basic Science

1. How to Set Up, Staff, and Fund Your Laboratory: The First 3 Years.- 2. Choosing a Good Scientific Mentor and Being a Good Mentee.- 3. Effective Time Management Strategies for Conducting Laboratory Research.- 4. Tips on Maintaining an Effective Lab Notebook & Data Integrity.- 5. Statistics for Bench Research.- 6. Ethics in Laboratory Research.- 7. Modern Techniques for DNA, RNA and Protein Assessment.- 8. Considerations for Immunohistochemistry.- 9. Utilizing Flow Cytometry Effectively.- 10. Effective Tissue and Cell Culture.- 11. Gene Editing Techniques.- 12. Stem cells and tissue engineering.- 13. Animal Models in Surgical Research (Genetic & Surgical Models).- 14. Microbiome: Current status and future applications.- 15. Systems Biology: Generating and Understanding Big Data.

Greg Kennedy, MD, PhD graduated from the University of Washington School of Medicine and received his PHD in cancer biology from the University of Wisconsin where he also completed his general surgery training.  He has extensive research experience runs a funded basic science laboratory that studies the role of the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor in colorectal carcinogenesis.  He is currently the John H. Blue Chair of General Surgery and the Director of Gastrointestinal Surgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. 

Ankush Gosain, MD, PhD is an Associate Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and Director of Surgical Research at the Children's Foundation Research Institute of Le Bonheur Children's Hospital. His NIH-funded laboratory focuses on the development of the enteric nervous system and gastrointestinal mucosal immune system. The long-term goal of his research is to gain an understanding of the interactions between the enteric nervous and gastrointestinal immune systems in both development and disease to permit the generation of novel neuro-immunomodulatory therapies that may potentially target a broad range of congenital and acquired pediatric gastrointestinal tract diseases (Hirschsprung's disease, necrotizing enterocolitis, intestinal atresia, motility disorders, inflammatory bowel disease, etc.).



Melina R. Kibbe, MD, is Professor of Surgery with tenure, and the Colin G. Thomas, Jr. Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of North Carolina (UNC).  She also is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering.  Prior to UNC, Dr. Kibbe was faculty at Northwestern University for 13 years where she also served as the Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Surgery and as Deputy Director of the Simpson Querrey Institute for BioNanotechnology.  Clinically, Dr. Kibbe has significant experience

"This book is written for surgeon scientists at various early stages in their career development. ... This will be a high-quality and very specific addition to the library of young surgeons aspiring to a career in academic surgery with a particular interest in bench research. ... I would recommend it to any surgeon doing bench research and/or translational research." (Carol Scott-Conner, Doody's Book Reviews, July 26, 2019)