Many academic health centers are beginning to acknowledge that academic science is no longer a reliable career path and are offering assistance in transitioning to alternative careers. (journals.lww.com)
I was there at the beginning of the Roadmap [former NIH Director Elias Zerhouni's set of cross-NIH initiatives] when we were setting all this up and we always understood that the CTSAs were a fantastic opportunity to reengineer clinical research in academic health centers and provide a new home for this. (sciencemag.org)
She ultimately chose to study leukemia patients» immune responses to bone marrow transplants, an area conducive to translational research in part because the work involves treating patients with human cells, which can be prepared at academic health centers. (sciencemag.org)