Sentences with phrase «tenure track researchers»

When it comes to hiring tenure track researchers, «I've seen hiring committees judge candidates by how many Science and Nature papers they've published,» she says.

Not exact matches

Only a minority of the postdocs working in university labs have opportunities to receive high - quality training from eminent senior researchers, develop their own research ideas, gain experience in lab management and grant writing, acquire contacts and a publication record and, ultimately, move into a tenure - track position at a research institution.

What I mean is, once you have your R01 it's only a matter of time until you receive a good tenure - track offer from a fine institution, negotiate a strong start - up package, and get off to an excellent start as an independently funded researcher.

► Setting an example we hope will be emulated widely, the new president of RIKEN, Japan's «scandal - tarnished network of national laboratories,» announced plans to restore the labs» luster by «introducing a tenure track system that would retain the best young researchers now on temporary contracts,» Dennis Normile reported Monday at ScienceInsider.

Like many other young scientists, Owen had started graduate school thinking he would have a career as a tenure - track academic researcher.

The chance to attain full scientific recognition without having to land a faculty job first could shrink the chasm now separating postdocs from researchers on the tenure track.

It's not as good as a tenure - track position, but from a funding standpoint, it's better than what many young researchers have to deal with.

What is needed, he said, is to create new career opportunities on a «professional track» for nonfaculty university researchers who would receive adequate compensation and routes for advancement without the necessity of a tenure - track job.

A seminal report from the National Research Council (NRC) published in 2005, called Bridges to Independence: Fostering the Independence of New Investigators in Biomedical Research, suggests that the traditional definition of an independent researcher — as an individual, usually in a tenure - track position, who has received his or her first RO1 research project grant (or equivalent) as a principal investigator — is too narrow.

Last October, Duccio Panzani, a 35 - year - old clinical veterinary researcher in equine reproduction at the University of Pisa, won a tenure - track ricercatore position in a concorso after a 3 - year postdoc.

The survey's reported differences in researchers» outputs are in line with other studies that make the case for more tenure - track structures, Müller says.

Right now, the institute is looking to hire five new tenure - track faculty members from junior to established researchers with expertise from bioinformatics and systems modeling to genomics and lipomics.

Wahl was on the tenure track in 2002 as a pathology researcher at Duke University, identifying cellular targets for cancer therapies, when funding dried up for her research and she consequently failed to get tenure.

National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Harold Varmus would seem to have everything he needs to create a world - class graduate school in biomedical science — about 1150 tenured and tenure - track researchers, the country's largest clinical research center, and scores of experts in the hot new discipline of bioinformatics.

To give young talent a career path, Spain could provide incentives for the retirement of senior researchers and introduce the tenure - track positions that were promised in the 2011 science law and again in the 2013 to 2020 science strategy.

This results in a glut of postdoctoral trainees who, even though they are aware that only 14.3 % of PhDs in the life sciences end up in tenure track position 5 years after receiving their PhDs, still strive to become academic researchers themselves (44 % of postdocs in the life sciences name faculty - research as their preferred career outcome - see below).

This program is designed to facilitate a timely transition of outstanding postdoctoral researchers or clinician - scientists from mentored research positions to independent, tenure - track or equivalent faculty positions, and to provide independent NIH research support during the transition that will help these individuals launch competitive, independent research careers.