As NIH funding shrinks, graduate programs grow, and fewer than 10 % of PhDs go on to tenure - track position, Bruce Alberts, professor at University of California, San Francisco, best - selling textbook author, and newly minted National Medal of Science winner, wondered aloud, «What brilliant young person wants to become a scientist... if they have to wait until they're 42 to get their first independent grant?» (ascb.org)
In the ensuing discussion, committee member John Hennessy, president of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, observed that funding postdocs through independent grants would not truly go to the heart of the problem. (sciencemag.org)
Lastly, as a midcareer faculty member with independent grant funding such as an R01, you can apply for a K24. (niaid.nih.gov)