http://scienceprogress.org/2009/03/nih-young-researchers/ Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:59:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://scienceprogress.org/2009/03/nih-young-researchers/comment-page-1/#comment-4528 FlyGal Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:25:19 +0000 http://www.scienceprogress.org/?p=1986#comment-4528 I agree that early-career investigators need more support. An equally ignored population group are postdocs. Right now, we have a huge number of talented, highly trained postdocs that are unable to transition into a faculty positions because of the dearth of said jobs. The one thing federal agencies can do, is create research positions that are an alternative to traditional faculty jobs by increasing the number of staff scientist positions so that postdocs can advance into stable jobs (not languish as trainees forever) while continuing to pursue bench science. I wrote more about posdocs in federal agencies (NIH)earlier this week. http://newvoicesforresearch.blogspot.com/2009/03/nih-intramural-program-long-term.html I agree that early-career investigators need more support. An equally ignored population group are postdocs.
Right now, we have a huge number of talented, highly trained postdocs that are unable to transition into a faculty positions because of the dearth of said jobs. The one thing federal agencies can do, is create research positions that are an alternative to traditional faculty jobs by increasing the number of staff scientist positions so that postdocs can advance into stable jobs (not languish as trainees forever) while continuing to pursue bench science. I wrote more about posdocs in federal agencies (NIH)earlier this week. http://newvoicesforresearch.blogspot.com/2009/03/nih-intramural-program-long-term.html

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