A collaboration of prominent scientists and educators to confront the dangers to the
U.S. biomedical enterprise, and to take the next steps to change.
In 2010, she took classes in
the biomedical enterprise program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology so she would be ready when the moment came.
Richard is a trustee of the Boston Museum of Science, a member of the MIT / Harvard Medical School HST program advisory council where he helps teach a course on
the biomedical enterprise, and a trustee of the Boston Biomedical Research Institute.
But if jobs and funding opportunities are lacking, reports on the ills of
the biomedical enterprise most certainly are not.
In that article, titled «Toward a sustainable biomedical research enterprise: Finding consensus and implementing recommendations,» the authors examined a number of recent reports on the state of
the biomedical enterprise and distilled their recommendations into a list of what they believe constitute «consensus» proposals.
A 2005 National Academy of Sciences report documented a shortage of veterinarian scientists in
the biomedical enterprise, noting that few National Institutes of Health (NIH)-- funded competitive grants involving animals were awarded to principal investigators with veterinary training.
In the long term, it seems likely the number of postdoc positions in
the biomedical enterprise in the U.S. will decrease.