Chapter 02: Administrative and Leadership Experience

In this segment, Dr. Kripke descirbes her work at the National Cancer Institute in Frederick, Maryland (1975 -1983), including her administrative experience. She set up a laboratory from scratch and eventually became head of the Immunobiology Physical and Chemical Carcinogenesis Section in the Cancer Biology Program at the NCI-Frederick Cancer Research Facility. To streamline the discussion about the development of her research path during this time, Dr. Kripke provides the manuscript of a lecture she gave on the progress of her research. She notes that the period at the NCI broadened her outlook on biology, as it was devoted exclusively to doing science and exposed her to scientists from diverse fields. She also speaks about the administrative skills she acquired (how to manage people; how to run a scientific meeting), in addition to raising her own professional profile in the field. This period, she notes, stimulated her interest in the issues of leadership -this would continue with her increasingly significant administrative roles at MD Anderson.https://openworks.mdanderson.org/mchv_interviewchapters/1081/thumbnail.jp