Bringing Greater Balance to the Force (the Biomedical Scientific Workforce, that is)
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One of the biggest problems in scientific funding today is that younger scientists are increasingly shut out of funding, and are forced to stay in "training" for years on end or else drop out of academia. I recently met a young biology professor at a major university who did not want to be quoted by name: He/she had recently gotten a first NIH grant at age 40, after spending 8 years doing postdocs. He/she said that of their friends and cohort members in their early 40s, most were divorced, had no children, and had spent their entire life to that point either in school or in underpaid jobs.
Bringing Greater Balance to the Force (the Biomedical Scientific Workforce, that is)
Bringing Greater Balance to the Force (the…
Bringing Greater Balance to the Force (the Biomedical Scientific Workforce, that is)
One of the biggest problems in scientific funding today is that younger scientists are increasingly shut out of funding, and are forced to stay in "training" for years on end or else drop out of academia. I recently met a young biology professor at a major university who did not want to be quoted by name: He/she had recently gotten a first NIH grant at age 40, after spending 8 years doing postdocs. He/she said that of their friends and cohort members in their early 40s, most were divorced, had no children, and had spent their entire life to that point either in school or in underpaid jobs.