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Fellows are asked to begin investigating research projects and mentors during the year before they begin their clinical fellowship and to narrow the search to a small number of possibilities by the time they begin fellowship. We provide listings of many laboratory and clinical researchers in the Boston area and ask the fellows to read about specific research areas and begin to identify potential mentors. In addition, during the fellow's first year, senior faculty members present their research at the division seminar series and at the annual Fall retreat. To aid the selection process, fellows meet with selected faculty in the broad area of the fellow's research interest. The meetings occur on trips to Boston and/or early in the first year. This process continues throughout the first half of the first year, with the goal that all fellows will have secured a research position by December, at the latest.
In addition to laboratories within pediatric hematology/oncology, during the past 42 years many fellows have trained in outstanding laboratories throughout the Boston area. Fellows are able to work with any of the thousands of experienced researchers in the Boston area, as long as the outside research sponsor is acceptable to an oversight committee composed of Drs. Williams, Orkin, and Pellman (laboratory research) or Sallan, Grier and Diller (clinical research). The opportunities include clinical and laboratory researchers at Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard College, Harvard Business School, the Kennedy School of Government, the various Harvard hospitals (Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Whitehead Institute, the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, the McGovern Institute, the Picower Institute, Tufts, Brandeis, Boston University, the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, and researchers outside the pediatric hematology/oncology program at Children's Hospital Boston or Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Outside research experiences are valuable since, if fellows rejoin the program as faculty, they bring new skills and new areas of research.
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