The National Postdoctoral Association defines a postdoctoral scholar (or a postdoc) as “an individual holding a doctoral degree who is engaged in a temporary period of mentored research and/or scholarly training for the purpose of acquiring the professional skills needed to pursue a career path of his or her choosing.”
Now that I’ve discussed the consolidated snapshot of the PhD biomedical research workforce, I’d like to focus on some trend data about graduate students gathered by the biomedical workforce working group.
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As I blogged last week, and most of you have heard by now, a working group of the Advisory Committee to the NIH Director (ACD) that I co-chaired together with Shirley Tilghman from Princeton just completed a study of the biomedical research workforce.
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It has been an exciting time at the NIH over the past two days. The Advisory Committee to the NIH Director (ACD) met for its regular biannual meeting on campus, and the agenda was jam-packed.
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Recently we explored the increase in average age of new investigators. While that average age has remained relatively constant over the past ten years, we are seeing something different in our entire pool of principal investigators (PIs).
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I’ve talked to you over the past year on many aspects of the biomedical research pipeline. But one issue, the plight of the early career researcher has been front and center almost from the first day I joined NIH.
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As you may remember from previous blog posts, a working group of the Advisory Committee to the NIH Director began studying the biomedical research workforce and published a request for information asking for input last fall.
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Earlier this month, two working groups of the Advisory Committee to the Director released two requests for information to seek public opinion about two different, but important issues facing biomedical research.
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I recently came across an interesting article by Fuhrmann et al. that talks about the range of career options that eventually attract graduate students.
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I hope you saw all the great attention our sister agency the National Science Foundation received this week.
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