A generation at risk: Young investigators and the future of the biomedical workforce.

Authors

Ronald J Daniels

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Volume 112. Issue 2. Pages 313-8. Jan 12, 2015. Epub Jan 04, 2015.

Abstract

A number of distressing trends, including a decline in the share of key research grants going to younger scientists, as well as a steady rise in the age at which investigators receive their first funding, are now a decades-long feature of the US biomedical research workforce. Working committees have proposed recommendations, policy makers have implemented reforms, and yet the trajectory of our funding regime away from young scientists has only worsened. An investigation of some of the major factors and their geneses at play in explaining the increasing average age to first RO1 is presented. Recommendations related to funding, peer review, career paths, and the university-government partnership are provided.

PMID:
25561560
Bibliographic data and abstract were imported from PubMed on 12 Feb 2015.

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