Young trainees seeking an entry point for research should identify important discoveries in areas of personal interest and build knowledge and connections to test hypotheses.

“What I say is, okay, you're not waiting for something top secret that someone comes and whispers in your ear. What you're waiting for is the next nature science and cell paper to be published that describes something that's very important in an area that you've said you've just, for some intuitive reason that you have an interest in. And trust me, the field is not going to drop everything that they're doing to go pursue that. But if you're at the dawn of your career, you're in the perfect moment to to now actually build the knowledge base, meet the people who are the relevant players, assemble the knowledge, pull together the tools to actually start testing this hypothesis, whether it's you're a wet lab investigator or”