A fair deal for PhD students and postdocs

Affiliations

¹ is at the Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology , University of California at San Francisco , San Francisco , United States . He blogs about the challenges and opportunities associated with biomedical research at Biomedwatch.wordpress.com . His research was supported by the NIH from 1969 to 2008, and he served as a reviewer of grant applications at intervals during this period henry.bourne@ucsf.edu.

Henry R Bourne. Elife. 2013.

. 2013 Oct 1:2:e01139.

doi: 10.7554/eLife.01139.

¹ is at the Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology , University of California at San Francisco , San Francisco , United States . He blogs about the challenges and opportunities associated with biomedical research at Biomedwatch.wordpress.com . His research was supported by the NIH from 1969 to 2008, and he served as a reviewer of grant applications at intervals during this period henry.bourne@ucsf.edu.

Abstract

The relentless expansion that threatens the sustainability of biomedical research in the US takes a heavy toll on young researchers.

Keywords: NIH; Point of view; careers in science; grad school; postdocs; science policy and funding.

Competing interests:The author declares that no competing interests exist.

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