Most people I've known since my days
as a bench scientist react with dismay to the news that I'm now the project manager for one of the 6th Framework Programme's large new Networks of Excellence funded by the European Commission.
The consultant there also suggested that I gain business experience, but
as a bench scientist, I lack opportunities to do so.Should I give up my job as a postdoc and go for an MBA, or look for any kind of job that could give me the experience I need?
Not exact matches
I should declare up front that I am a proud possessor of a few science degrees, and
as a priority candidates list member from its inception, I undeniably have a vested interest in highlighting the absence of
scientists on the Opposition
benches and amongst our group of selected candidates!
Following the MPH program I'll work at NCI, where I will establish a research agenda that I hope will springboard me to a career
as a different kind of translational
scientist than I was exposed to in the lab: Whereas physician -
scientists take discoveries from «the
bench to the bedside,» I want to take my research from «the
bench to society.»
As happened during the glory days of those other famed institutions, Rubin foresees lab chiefs joining postdocs, grad students, and staff
scientists at the
bench, unhampered by the need to teach, see to administrative tasks, or write proposals.
Other leading
scientists leave the details of basic research to graduate students or postdocs, but Melton spends
as much time
as possible working at a private lab
bench adjacent to his office.
Initially, I would begin
as a
bench - scale
scientist and depending on my initiative and output, could move up quickly to staff and then senior
scientist, team leader, and maybe even head my own project or department.
What is vanishing — if it ever really existed — is a mass of physician -
scientists matching an earlier generation's idealized concept of the «triple threat» who could,
as a solitary clinical investigator, move effortlessly between bedside and
bench, managing a busy clinical practice and a productive research laboratory while devoting significant time to teaching and mentoring.
Creative Pursuit: Being trained
as a
scientist and working for the cosmetics industry doesn't mean you have to be sitting behind a
bench.
The research
scientist just 4 years into her first industry job with a company that makes diagnostic tests and reagents, who finds
as she reenters the job market that she is not a strong candidate for
bench - science jobs in the biotech industry because she has been labeled a «diagnostics industry» employee.
As the story opens, the lab's two PIs, clinical researcher Sandy Glass and
bench scientist Marion Mendelssohn, are on the verge of giving Cliff the heave - ho because he has been noodling around with an idea of his own rather than pitching in on the lab's main projects.
The turn to Facebook was Painter's first step on a path from the
bench to the bed to the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where
as a
scientist - turned - patient - turned - advocate, she directs an unusual collaboration between patients and researchers called the Metastatic Breast Cancer Project.
It was her first step on a path from the
bench to the bed to the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where
as a
scientist - turned - patient - turned - advocate, she directs an unusual collaboration between patients and researchers called the Metastatic Breast Cancer Project.
Moving forward, my goal, if possible, was to combine all of these passions and to include
bench work, teaching and outreach in my career
as a
scientist.
Once I had identified these interests in teaching and outreach, I sustained these types of activities while training
as a
scientist at the
bench.
I sat for hours on the
bench beside a sixty - two - year - old jazz pianist
as he practiced his scales and played me some of his new compositions, and I observed Roma, the fifty - seven - year - old laboratory
scientist in her first year of teaching adolescents in an after - school program.
Dubos was one of our founding fathers, present at the creation, and the first part of his essay traces his sometimes - painful steps from
bench scientist as a bacteriologist to someone profoundly focused on the human condition and the ways that the world that humans inherit, alter and leave behind shape human health, not only in the narrow sense of healthy people but in the larger sense of societal health and well - being.