title: The joy of a career in cell biology.
abstract: Science is a career where you do what you love everyday. Our science is built on the shoulders of those who came before us, and in turn we provide shoulders for our students and colleagues to build upon. Of course, seeing the seeds of ideas that we plant bear fruit as interesting science is why I love being a scientist. Looking back it also has been a particularly gratifying challenge to mentor members of the younger generation in building their careers.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomy, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94122-0452, USA. zena.werb@ucsf.edu
authors.forename: Zena
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Werb
mesh_terms: D001325:Autobiographies as Topic; D001363:Awards and Prizes; D002170:Canada; D003585:Cell Biology; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D020782:Matrix Metalloproteinases / Q000266:history* / Q000378:metabolism*; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000201:enzymology*; D012958:Societies, Scientific; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D020782:Matrix Metalloproteinases