Sentences with phrase «biomedical research career»

Group asked to recommend how to ensure that talented students are drawn into biomedical research careers

Small and highly select, the program aims to produce scientists seeking academic research careers and recruits «outstanding science students committed to biomedical research careers» who already have a «sophisticated scientific background» and substantial research experience, the Web site says.

Institutions are encouraged to incorporate additional innovative methods to engage and prepare students for success, including those who might otherwise not choose biomedical research careers.

Collectively, these awardees will establish a national consortium to develop, implement, and evaluate approaches to encourage individuals to start and stay in biomedical research careers.

This program is a national collaborative through which the Diversity Program Consortium, in partnership with the NIH, will develop, implement, and evaluate innovative approaches to research training and mentoring, with the goal of engaging individuals from diverse backgrounds and helping them prepare for and succeed in biomedical research careers.

Not exact matches

The $ 4.7 - million company won its first contract outside the DOD on good references and luck: the National Institutes of Health wanted a minority - owned company to survey the career opportunities for minorities in biomedical research.

Her accomplishments are impressive: she speaks five languages, holds a master's in biomedical engineering, and pursued a career as a cancer research scientist.

The NASEM report, commissioned by Congress in 2016, collected career aspiration, training, and outcome data from NIH, research institutions, and professional societies, as well as solicited suggestions from individual university administrators and biomedical scientists at different stages of their careers.The report especially zeroed in on the plight of the postdoctoral research fellow.

«A lack of diversity at the faculty level is an enormous problem in biomedical science, so I applaud HHMI's efforts to support junior scientists from underrepresented backgrounds,» writes Jessica Polka, president of the Future of Research board of directors, in an email to Science Careers.

- Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Program for NIGMS MARC Predoctoral Fellowships (F31) Deadline: December 5, 2005 MARC Predoctoral Fellowships are individual National Research Service awards made to outstanding graduates of the MARC U * STAR Program (Minority Access to Research Careers / Undergraduate Student Training in Academic Research) to help them pursue a graduate degree in the biomedical sciences.

National Institutes of Health / NIH - Fogarty International Center International Research Scientist Development Awards The International Research Scientist Development Award (IRSDA) is offered by the Fogarty International Center (FIC) for U.S. postdoctoral biomedical scientists, in the formative stages of their careers, who seek an opportunity to continue research in, or extend their research experience into, developing coResearch Scientist Development Awards The International Research Scientist Development Award (IRSDA) is offered by the Fogarty International Center (FIC) for U.S. postdoctoral biomedical scientists, in the formative stages of their careers, who seek an opportunity to continue research in, or extend their research experience into, developing coResearch Scientist Development Award (IRSDA) is offered by the Fogarty International Center (FIC) for U.S. postdoctoral biomedical scientists, in the formative stages of their careers, who seek an opportunity to continue research in, or extend their research experience into, developing coresearch in, or extend their research experience into, developing coresearch experience into, developing countries.

AAU and the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology both call the president's 2006 request «disappointing,» with FASEB adding that the proposed funding levels could «discourage our most talented young people from pursuing careers in biomedical research.»

But if it is true (and I no longer seriously doubt it), then it is a fact of importance for young biomedical scientists on research - intensive career trajectories and for the institutions that employ them.

► In this week's issue of STM, Arthur Levine, senior vice chancellor for the health sciences and dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pennsylvania, and 18 other U.S. academic medical center leaders wrote that «[u] nstable funding for biomedical research has created a hostile working environment that erodes the time available for investigators to conduct their research, discourages innovative high - risk science, threatens to drive established investigators out of U.S. academic biomedical research, and creates uncertainty for trainees and early - career investigators.

LabMate, a Boston - area, investor - funded, startup company that launched in May, aims to «disrupt» the current science career logjam by bringing the «gig economy» to bioscience through its proprietary online platform, according to co-founder and CEO Craig Russo, who went into business development after completing a bachelor's degree in biological and biomedical sciences and working as a research assistant.

Either way, it is an unorthodox and risky way to cope with the persistent but ever - increasing career - related uncertainties in the biomedical research world.

«Alan Leshner personifies a rich, diverse career in biomedical research, and he is a true visionary in the field.»

In response to this feedback, the office initiated a career workshop series, a research survival skills series, and a biomedical career fair in full or pilot formats over the next year and a half.

In repelling these individuals from biomedical research, we reduce the quality of the junior scientist pool and ultimately the entire scientific enterprise as junior scientists ascend the career ladder.

Despite her reflexive reservations, and thanks in part to her eventual support, I went on to pass my second exam 3 months later, receive my Ph.D., and pursue a satisfying career in biomedical research.

The goals of these strategies would be to ensure that career outcomes are noted for all trainees, so that individuals contemplating biomedical research training and selecting a training institution would have access to current information about the career outcomes of students and postdoctorates from those institutions.

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has a long history of working to increase the diversity of its intramural and extramural biomedical research workforce, especially through programs such as Minority Access to Research Careers, Minority Biomedical Research Support, Research Centers at Minority Institutions, and Diversity Suppresearch workforce, especially through programs such as Minority Access to Research Careers, Minority Biomedical Research Support, Research Centers at Minority Institutions, and Diversity SuppResearch Careers, Minority Biomedical Research Support, Research Centers at Minority Institutions, and Diversity SuppResearch Support, Research Centers at Minority Institutions, and Diversity SuppResearch Centers at Minority Institutions, and Diversity Supplements.

Nevertheless, upon entering the biomedical academic career track, black and white faculty members are equally likely to be tenured at institutions that grant doctorates and at Research I institutions.

ORWH — bridging its mission goals of research on women's health, women in biomedical careers, and inclusion of women as research subjects

Another recommendation of the biomedical research workforce report was to understand better how different types of support — including having an individual fellowship, being on an institutional training grant, or being supported on a PI's research grant — track in terms of research productivity or future career path and success.

The purpose of this exposure to a biomedical research environment is to encourage students to consider careers in science and medicine.

The goal of all these proposals is to get the best young biomedical scientists into their own independent, well - funded laboratories earlier in their careers, so that they don't waste their most productive and creative years in a supporting role, pursuing other people's research ideas.

Finally, the report noted that most biomedical graduate programs and postdocs in the United States do little to prepare biomedical scientists for careers outside of academia even though considerably fewer than half (43 %) wind up in academic research or teaching and fewer than a quarter (23 %) wind up tenured.

Despite loving research, I felt I would have more of an impact on underrepresented minorities by encouraging them to pursue careers in the biomedical sciences and health professions, rather than discovering a cure for cancer.

In a major policy shift that is reverberating across the biomedical research community, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, says it plans to cap the number of grants an investigator can hold in order to free up funding for early - career scientists and those struggling to keep their labs afloat.

The Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF, a Science Careers sponsor) supports research that cuts across the traditional biomedical and physical - sciences boundaries.

► Also in this week's STM, Ambika Mathur and four coauthors (including Cynthia Fuhrmann, a member of the team that created Science Careers» myIDP), describe NIH's Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training (BEST) program, which aims «to enhance career preparation for graduate pre - and postdoctoral biomedical research trainees.»

A fellowship offers the opportunity to work on the cutting edge of biomedical research with faculty and staff who are dedicated to helping their trainees achieve their career goals.

Through a combination of a variety of information gathering activities and Committee deliberations, the Committee has concluded that the nation's need for these scientists remains strong and that the NRSA program, while small compared to the many other sources of doctoral and postdoctoral support, is enormously powerful in terms of its ability to change research emphases and to attract the highest quality individuals to research careers in the basic biomedical, behavioral and clinical sciences.

The PennPORT program is intended to enhance research - oriented teaching at partner institutions, foster collaboration in research and teaching between the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania and that of partner minority - serving institutions, and encourage undergraduates to enter a career in biomedical research.

His career has included many global health and biomedical research management positions at NIH, the U.S. State Department and elsewhere in the U.S. Government.

Three research assistants at the MDI Biological Laboratory talk about about how Maine INBRE helped foster their careers, and about what the opportunity to work in biomedical research in their home state means to them.

Keynote speakers provide updates on cutting edge biomedical research and give our student attendees a glimpse at inspiring research careers.

Since 2000, the BTT Program has been preparing CCP students for an exciting career in the growing field of basic and applied biomedical research.

The unique fellowship program, offered in conjunction with the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation of Rutgers University - New Jersey Medical School (RU - NJMS), and the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation, features several innovative and distinctive components: an individualized training plan, mentors from various areas of psychosocial and biomedical research, formal training and learning activities, and a career development lecture series.

The overarching goal of the NIGMS Postdoctoral Research Associate (PRAT) Program is to provide high quality postdoctoral research training in the basic biomedical sciences, in NIH intramural research laboratories, to a diverse group of postdoctoral fellows to prepare them for leadership positions in biomedical Research Associate (PRAT) Program is to provide high quality postdoctoral research training in the basic biomedical sciences, in NIH intramural research laboratories, to a diverse group of postdoctoral fellows to prepare them for leadership positions in biomedical research training in the basic biomedical sciences, in NIH intramural research laboratories, to a diverse group of postdoctoral fellows to prepare them for leadership positions in biomedical research laboratories, to a diverse group of postdoctoral fellows to prepare them for leadership positions in biomedical careers.

The current funding environment has raised serious concerns about the long - term viability of the biomedical research enterprise, as securing NIH grants has become increasingly difficult for scientists early in their careers.

The Biomedical Technician Training Program prepares Community College of Philadelphia students for an exciting career in the growing field of basic and applied biomedical research.

SciLifeLab and the host universities want to support young researchers and further strengthen the research environment at SciLifeLab and are therefore now advertising eight career positions for research leaders, two at each of the universities, in the fields of microbial bioenergy production, applied physics, biomedical sciences, ecological genomics, RNA biology, molecular medicine and molecular biosciences.

«My experience as a summer research fellow at the MDI Biological Laboratory has given me confidence that research is the right choice for me,» says Samantha White, 31, a student at Southern Maine Community College in South Portland who plans to pursue a career in biomedical research.

The Society supports robust, predictable, sustainable federal funding of biomedical research to fuel these advances while ensuring that there is support for training the next generation of geneticists and a career pathway for our future leaders in the field.

The goal of this program is to encourage students from underrepresented groups to pursue careers in biomedical research.

Gladstone is dedicated to training the next generation of scientists — not just trainees within its own walls, but also young students who aspire to obtain careers in the exciting world of biomedical research.

«With the knowledge I gained through the PUMAS program at Gladstone, I am now exploring dual - degree programs that support a career in medicine and keep me informed of new advances in biomedical research.»

«The PUMAS program provides students with more than exposure to Gladstone's science and a variety of careers in biomedical research,» said Shannon Noonan, MS, education and community partnerships manager at Gladstone, who oversees the PUMAS program.