BRIAN HILLER
In his office at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, biologist Charles Graham keeps a box containing copies of first-author papers and awards granted to students he's mentored. He is particularly proud of the program for the 2009 Canada's Premier Young Researcher ceremony, which he likens to "the Ministry of Health Oscars." Graham's former student Lynne-Marie Postovit won the award for her study of how oxygen levels in a tumor's microenvironment can shape tumor progression.
METHODS: Graham says that he knew within five minutes of meeting Postovit as an undergraduate that he wanted her to join his lab. Though Postovit had never done research before, her ability to "extract joy from experiments" that didn't aways give the desired answer made her a natural, says Graham. Postovit ...
