Sentences with phrase «career life scientists»

The Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program supports early - career life scientists in academic labs across the U.S.

Focused on the prospect of jobs at biotech and pharma companies, many life scientists overlook MD&D — a field that, though perhaps currently less lucrative than those better known industries, is also easier to enter for early - career life scientists.

In 1998, a distinguished committee led by Princeton University's Shirley Tilghman warned that too many early - career life scientists faced diminishing and discouraging professional prospects.

Not exact matches

In my previous life, I was a music and brain scientist, In 2006, I hung up my academic spurs to pursue a career as a multimedia creative.

«Marc is a populist scientist of employment,» reads his bio on the Ladders site, which also says that his «passion in life is jobs,» and calls him a «widely recognized thought leader on job search, career management, recruiting and business.»

The discussion focused on the Ph.D. career crisis more as a structural issue of «overproduction» than as a calamity for tens of thousands of talented and dedicated aspiring scientists who have invested crucial years of their lives in the hope of taking their place among those advancing the nation's scientific enterprise.

In these articles, Science Careers talks to two scientists about what made them decide to volunteer for an international nonprofit, what the experience was like, and how it impacted their personal and professional lives.

Fiske lives with his wife and two daughters in Oakland, California, and is a frequent lecturer on the subject of career development for scientists.

Science Careers got a peek into the professional lives of scientists studying healthy aging from the perspectives of genetics, sociology and psychology, engineering, and neurology.

A new program aims to launch the careers of diverse life scientists — including women and members of other underrepresented groups — by providing up to 8 years of support, covering both the postdoctoral training and junior faculty stages.

Greater research resources, job opportunities, and living conditions often lead talented Eastern European scientists to establish their careers in the West.

As far as I know, there are no TV programs about the lives of physician - scientists; most of us who chose this career path did so because we encountered and became enchanted with the idea of integrating medicine and research.

Take a look at the services offered by your own professional body or any of the larger ones — they cover all aspects relating to the life of practicing scientists, so if you have an interest in developing your subject away from the bench, they may offer some interesting career opportunities.

Life scientists looking for help with their careers, particularly those based in or hoping to move to the United Kingdom, may well find the Biology in Business Web site useful.

Our essayists, many of them up - and - coming scientists just like you, will discuss the pros and the cons; the impact, if any, of their decisions on their career trajectories; and the impact of their careers on their children and on family life.

Starting this week and continuing through January 2004, Next Wave will publish a constellation of perspectives with a view toward informing you and others how scientists have approached — at various stages of their training, careers, and lives — the questions surrounding whether and when to start a family and how to fulfill family and job responsibilities, and keep them in balance.

Now that the tsunami of cash has receded, many life scientists — especially those in the early phase of their careers — have found conditions no better, and in some ways worse, than before the process began.

► In this week's Science Careers - produced Working Life column, Richard Dasheiff describes his transformation from aspiring physicist to clinical neurologist via several decades as a physician scientist.

While the professional life of Spanish academics broadly goes through the four traditional phases of predoctoral researcher (Ayudante), postdoctoral researcher (Ayudante Doctor), lecturer, and finally permanent research staff, it is early stage and transitional stage career scientists which have been identified as the most vulnerable.

Living the Issue 8 June 2007 A family health crisis led lab scientist Adil Shamoo to a new passion and a new career in bioethics.

Throughout her young career, Emiliani has made a series of tough decisions and changes of course that, although they may have delayed her maturity as a fully independent scientist, have also kept her viable for the kind of work she wants to do, and the kind of life she intends to lead.

► This week's Science Careers - produced Working Life column features a conversation between husband - and - wife scientists Jason Cooley and Renee JiJi — who not only work at the same university but are also in the same department.

«When scientists face the choice of an academic career or industry, many of those choosing industry do so because they want to make a difference that will improve people's lives,» Gregory says.

An explosion of bioinformatics careers Alaina Levine, 13 June Big data is pouring out of life sciences research, creating ample opportunities for scientists with computer science expertise.

Scientists who start their corporate lives in the research laboratory don't have to spend their entire careers at the bench

For scientists considering careers in the life science industry, the choice between biotech and pharma has sometimes been a difficult one.

► In this week's Science Careers - produced «Working Life» column, researchers George F. Gao and Yong Feng «urge young scientists planning their careers to consider studying communicable diseases, especially highly pathogenic ones like Ebola or Lassa fever.Careers - produced «Working Life» column, researchers George F. Gao and Yong Feng «urge young scientists planning their careers to consider studying communicable diseases, especially highly pathogenic ones like Ebola or Lassa fever.careers to consider studying communicable diseases, especially highly pathogenic ones like Ebola or Lassa fever.»

Since 2000, the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)-- an organisation dedicated to promoting biological science in Europe — has used its Young Investigator Programme (YIP) to help talented life scientists start independent research careers in Europe

As Science Careers noted 5 years ago, a group of young scientists at WUSTL took matters into their own hands, creating the volunteer - run BALSA (or Biotechnology and Life Sciences Advising) Group, which hires out five - person interdisciplinary teams — sometimes including law or business students along with scientists — to do approximately 6 - week - long consulting projects for companies, universities, and other organizations.

While this stereotype doesn't reflect how scientists live and work today, it still shapes expectations about what a successful career should look like, and that could impact career - relevant decisions such as the awarding of prestigious research grants.

More misconduct... NSF's budget... predictable careers... Working Life... a moving profile of a scientist and advocate

As a scholar of science and technology studies (a social science field that aims to understand the social processes of knowledge production), I focused the 4 years of my Ph.D. on studying how the academic landscape in which today's postdoctoral life scientists develop their careers influences their working practices.

This series will feature contributions from current M.D. / Ph.D. students, who will tell how they got where they are and what getting there was like, and from physician - scientist graduates in the midst of highly successful careers, who will share their thoughts on their professional lives, describe the paths that led to their careers, and offer advice derived from years of accumulated experience about preparing for and managing an M.D. / Ph.D. career.

«Women need to see careers in science as desirable and realistic life choices,» says computer scientist Barbara Grosz, who chaired the task force.

Tilghman also chaired the 1998 NAS committee that produced Trends in the Early Careers of Life Scientists.

But after reflecting on my career, and the careers of my many physician - scientist colleagues, I realized that there are as many different paths as there are individuals, and many more «days in the life.»

The purpose of this feature is to provide prospective and current physician - scientist trainees with useful information about the nature of the physician - scientist's life and career and advice on how to prepare.

The study team — which also included Pierre Azoulay of the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and Joshua S. Graff Zivin of the University of California, San Diego — used public records to reconstruct the careers of 10,004 elite life scientists in the United States from the moment they earned their first independent position until 2006.

I decided to focus on postdocs because most life scientists identify the postdoc period as the crucial time to succeed or fail, a major bottleneck on the academic career trajectory.

By this, I don't mean «failed scientists who couldn't think of anything else to do with their sad, empty lives», but staff who have changed direction in their careers through choice or necessity, e.g., they still have mortgages to pay and kids to raise.

«I was surprised how «gender blind» the premises, analysis and conclusions were, starting with the definition of what constitutes an «elite life scientist,»» which heavily skewed the sample toward male representation, Pollitzer writes in an email to Science Careers.

For scientists pursuing careers in biotech, clusters of life science - related companies and research institutions in the eastern United States may be a promising place to look for jobs.

Trends in the Early Careers of Life Scientists Committee on Dimensions, Causes, and Implications of Recent Trends in Careers of Life Scientists, National Research Council (National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 1998).

Understand these half - dozen traits, integrate them into your work life, apply passion liberally, and the result will be that someday you will see significantly more career opportunities as others begin to consider you as a highly recruitable scientist in your own right.

The course also featured: a presentation by each participant for a panel that included a patent attorney, a newspaper editor, and an innovations specialist; a one - on - one consultation with Nana Lee, the course co-coordinator, a former senior scientist and director in the biotech industry who is experienced in career transitions and in dealing with life balance issues; and a presentation by U of T's Graduate Enterprise Internship program, which provides internships for students to explore opportunities in the business world.

Whether his students end up being food scientists, fashion designers or engineers, Abts says they will be better prepared for their careers, and life in general, if they can apply the design process to solve the future problems our society is certain to face.

In Broken Genius (Macmillan, $ 27.95), Pulitzer Prize — winning journalist Joel N. Shurkin describes a life of science gone sour, a scientist whose feelings of superiority drove the creation of his own legend and the collapse of his career.

The institutions formed the Coalition for Next Generation Life Science in response to the focus of many new Ph.D. s. solely on a limited number of traditional faculty positions and to the lack of good marketplace information on training and career options for talented life scientiLife Science in response to the focus of many new Ph.D. s. solely on a limited number of traditional faculty positions and to the lack of good marketplace information on training and career options for talented life scientilife scientists.

► In this week's Science Careers - produced Working Life column, Kevin Boehnke, a doctoral candidate in public health at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, writes that his training in ancient history has given him a perspective and tools that have made him a better scientist.

They also would be helped by knowing more about the range of options for trained life scientists, such as careers in industry, entrepreneurship, government and science communication.