«The latest news in the latest weeks are even more catastrophic because we have to slow down the pace of our projects for the lack of funds... and we have no guarantee about what will happen in the next few months,» says José Manuel Fernández, who is a postdoctoral fellow of the CSIC Institute of Agricultural Sciences in Madrid and a spokesperson for the Spanish
Federation of Young Investigators.
According to Alan Gintzler, program director of the new BIRCWH program at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, «While other NIH programs have supported women's health - related research, supporting the training
of young investigators in this pursuit is novel and should ensure that there will be adequate research interest in the pipeline.»
Dr. DeLisa is the founding director of Kessler Foundation Research Center, which under his leadership, developed into a center that is recognized around the world for physical and cognitive rehabilitation research and the
training of young investigators.
Today, young investigators must utilize the usual R01 machinery to get funded — and that means that NIH has to make sure that the standard review process works well for this second
tier of young investigators.
Her public efforts to remedy «the plight of young scientists,» as she termed the situation during an interview with Science Careers, go back to the 1994 National Academy of Sciences (NAS) committee she co-chaired that produced The
Funding of Young Investigators in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences.
According to Zon, the Harvard Stem Cell Institute has a
number of young investigators who collaborate freely, and group meetings that share results can include as many as 200 scientists.
The ESF is currently placing a greater focus on creating opportunities, such as workshop and conference participation grants, to promote the
integration of young investigators into collaborative research networks.
The Joslin DRC provides a framework to facilitate multi-disciplinary basic, translational and clinical diabetes research, to encourage the scientific
development of young investigators and to foster collaborations that further diabetes research.
Because of the
importance of young investigators to the future of lung cancer research, fellows, residents and trainees may apply for free, non-voting Fellow membership by submitting a signed letter stating the term dates of their fellowship, residency or proof of trainee status from their department.
Earlier this week, the
Federation of Young Investigators (FJI / Precarios) said in a public statement that «the last call for grants for the Training of University Faculty (FPU), the most important and competitive grants for the realization of a doctorate in our country, is accumulating delays and errors a lot more serious than usual.»
Dr. DeLisa is the founding director of research at Kessler Foundation, which under his leadership, developed into a center that is recognized around the world for physical and cognitive rehabilitation research and the
training of young investigators.
Last month, COSCE and several other organizations went to parliament to present a series of demands; tomorrow, the newly founded Spanish Association for the Advancement of Science, the Federation
of Young Investigators, and several grassroots associations will present lawmakers with a petition launched by Durán and others in February that decries the «abandoning of science.»
On 16 September, the Confederation of Spanish Scientific Societies, the Conference of Spanish University Chancellors, Investigación Digna, the Federation
of Young Investigators, and two major trade unions demanded in a public statement that the government bring civil research spending back to the 2009 level of 0.6 % of gross domestic product — the average in Europe — by 2016.
In an open letter today, the Federation
of Young Investigators and other organizations said that the 2014 science budget «only underscores the fall of the institution.»