Chapter 03: Building Collaborative Research Culture [Part I]

Dr. Grimm begins this chapter by talking about the evolution of her career in the Department of Tumor Biology. She sketches the history of her working relationship with the chair, Garth Nicholson. She then talks about her work in the Department of General Surgery (soon to be renamed, Surgical Oncology). She talks about her first collaborations with surgeons and collaborative work on cytokines and notes resistance to some of this translational work. She sketches the process of its acceptance. She names individuals who trained in her laboratory. Dr. Grimm then talks about the significance of her collaboration with Waun Ki Hong, MD [oral history interview], who helped shift the research culture into acceptance of collaborative, translational work. She sketches the sources of resistance of medical oncologists to translational work. Dr. Balch adds comments on how Dr. Hong helped effect change.https://openworks.mdanderson.org/surgeryhist_interviewchapters/1035/thumbnail.jp