Interdisciplinary studies come with high risk, but the prospects of both advancing science and pushing forward one's professional career make for high rewards.
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The author thanks M. Snyder, R.B. Altman, C. Ré, D.L. Rubin, A. Butte, M. Musen, Y.-J. Chen, M.-J. Ho, and C.-C. Jiang for their advice on mastering interdisciplinary studies. The author acknowledges funding support from a Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Student Research Fellowship, a Winston Chen Stanford Graduate Fellowship, the DARPA SIMPLEX program, and National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, grant numbers U01CA142555, 5P50HG00773502, and 5U24CA160036-05.
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Yu, KH. A survival guide for interdisciplinary PhD students. Nat Biotechnol 34, 993–994 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3671
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