Mentors with wide-ranging research interests nurture the most successful scientists

A study of academic mentoring involving thousands of biomedical scientists suggests that researchers are more likely to have a successful academic career if the mentors they work with have different areas of expertise. The team looked at more than 18,000 ‘trios’ of biomedical researchers drawn from the Academic Family Tree open database. Each trio consisted of a mentee, their graduate mentor and their postdoctoral mentor.