The Importance of Being and Having a Mentor: Q&A with Max Essex

Essex Lab retreat in New Hampshire

Max Essex is the Lasker Professor of Health Sciences at Harvard University, as well as the Founding Chair of both the Harvard AIDS Initiative and the Botswana Harvard Partnership. He talked with Martha Henry, HAI’s Director of Communications, about mentoring students and young scientists. You’re primarily a research scientist. How important is your role as a mentor? Extremely important. I think mentoring students to learn how to do research is one of the…