title: Mentored and inspired by Mimo: a tribute to Erminio Costa.
abstract: Throughout his long productive scientific career, Erminio Costa demonstrated several scholarly traits that illustrate a pattern for paths of successful achievement that should guide young scientists. Not only did he seek excellent training, he got and gave good mentoring. That guidance allowed him to ask important questions and to develop the methods necessary to obtain definitive answers by pursuing those questions in depth. Without question, he blazed trails in neuropharmacology that have been an inspiration to many others and me. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled 'Trends in neuropharmacology: in memory of Erminio Costa'.
authors.affiliation: Molecular and Integrative Neuroscience Department, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA. fbloom@scripps.edu
authors.forename: Floyd E
authors.initials: FE
authors.lastname: Bloom
mesh_terms: D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D008297:Male; D008611:Mentors; D009480:Neuropharmacology / Q000266:history*; D009488:Neurosciences / Q000266:history*; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D012107:Research Design; D014481:United States