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| ISBN: | 9780309549646
0309549647
0309549655
9780309549653
030909626X
9780309096263
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | "Recommendations for reform of the NIH grant system and the treatment of postdoctoral researchers"--Page viii.
Includes bibliographical references.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | A rising median age at which PhD s receive their first research grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is among the factors forcing academic biomedical researchers to spend longer periods of time before they can set their own research directions and establish there independence. The fear that promising prospective scientists will choose other career paths has raised concerns about the future of biomedical research in the United States. At the request of NIH, the National Academies conducted a study on ways to address these issues. The report recommends that NIH make fostering independence of biomedical researchers an agency-wide goal, and that it take steps to provide postdocs and early-career investigators with more financial support for their own research, improve postdoc mentoring and establish programs for new investigators and staff scientists among other mechanisms.
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| Other form: | Print version: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Bridges to Independence: Identifying Opportunities for and Challenges to Fostering the Independence of Young Investigators in the Life Sciences. Bridges to independence. Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2005 9780309096263
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