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A Difficult Pill to Swallow: The Harsh Realities of a 15% Funding Rate
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Tagged biomedical research, Canada, CIHR, Education: The PhD Factory, fellowship, funding, funding rates, Government, Graduate Student, grant funding, money, NIH, PDF, Peer Review, PhD, Policy, postdoc, R01 grants, Training, United States, University
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Biomedical Research and Broken Clocks: All the Parts, but No Instructions
The day-to-day rigors of academic biomedical research are difficult to appreciate, and it is necessary that scientists share their perspective of the knowledge market with politicians and government representatives who are burdened with making difficult decisions on our behalf. Unlike … Continue reading
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Bring home the (scientific) troops!
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