My personal journey that led to the crossroads of interdisciplinary manual medicine research: Serendipitous opportunities afforded a basic scientist

摘要

I distinctly remember the day it started. It was one week after my basic science colleagues and I moved into a grand new teaching building on the campus of an osteopathic medical school in Arizona. The offices were larger. There were fine conference rooms, the architecture simple but impressive. While it was still about 200 yards across a desert wash of sorts to get to my research lab, the space was built for teaching, interacting with students and other scholarly pursuits. As I toured the new building, walking into offices I thought were mine for I did not know the landscape well yet, I spied a large curious space across the hall from our "pod". The entire hall-facing side of the space gleamed brightly of new glass, but nothing could be discerned about what lay on the other side as blinds were hung, lowered and louvered shut at that moment. What could possibly be so important as to garner an entire half of a wing in this new building?