Sunday, September 28, 2008

Market for scientists

The market for biochemists is changing: pharma and biotech beckon, the path to academic tenure is strewn with obstacles:

"A decade after 26 members of the entering class of 1991 earned their Ph.D.s from Yale's elite molecular biophysics and biochemistry program, only one holds a tenured faculty position. But is an exodus from academia a bad thing?"
from And Then There Was One, Science 19 September 2008: 1622-1628.

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