title: Of mentors, mentoring, and extracellular matrix.
abstract: D. Montgomery Bissell briefly describes the way he came to a career in academic medicine, how he found mentors, initial projects, and finally a focus on matrix biology and hepatic fibrosis. He draws some lessons from the experience, which should have relevance for physician-scientist trainees, those considering that path, anyone with responsibility for training the next generation, institutional leaders, and the National Institutes of Health.
authors.affiliation: University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143-0538, USA. montgomery.bissell@ucsf.edu
authors.forename: D Montgomery
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Bissell
mesh_terms: D004501:Education, Medical / Q000266:history*; D005762:Gastroenterology / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D014481:United States