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[交流] Nature上发表的美国NIH关于美国生命学科就业情况的统计。已有12人参与

嫌麻烦的直接看如下的图。
2010年，被聘为faculty（Assistant Prof.,助理教授）的峰值在35～60岁之间，中值看起来在45岁左右。
而首次拿到NIH经费的峰值年龄在40～55之间。

现在这年头，即使是在美国能做到Faculty这样的牛人，那从普遍意义上来说也得做博士后一直做到45岁才能刚开始成为PI。

来源：
http://www.nature.com/news/a-wor ... 52?nc=1341065864213

原文：
A workforce out of balance
Too many biomedical PhDs and too few minorities are a demographic dilemma for the NIH.
Meredith Wadman
19 June 2012

The US biomedical workforce has a glut of young researchers but a dearth of some minority groups, members of which are struggling to establish themselves in the field. The double-barrelled problem is laid out in detail in a pair of reports presented to the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, on 14 June.

NIH leaders have long worried about a steep increase in the number of biomedical PhDs, a consequence of the doubling of the NIH budget from 1998 to 2003. Now that boom is making it increasingly difficult for young scientists to launch academic careers (see ‘Swelling ranks’).

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SOURCE: NSF; NIH; ASSOC. AM. MED. COLL.
“This is dysfunctional and it’s not sustainable in the long term,” says Shirley Tilghman, president of Princeton University in New Jersey and a co-chair of the working group that authored a report on structural problems in the workforce. It calls for several measures to address the oversupply of PhDs, including a six-year cap on the number of years that a graduate student can be supported by NIH funds and an increase in the proportion of students on career-oriented training grants rather than on research grants.

A second report, focusing on diversity, was spurred by a study published in Science last year, which found that after factors such as education and publication record are controlled for, black applicants are 10% less likely than white applicants to win NIH research funding (D. K. Ginther et al. Science 333, 1015–1019; 2011).

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SOURCE: 2010 US CENSUS BUREAU REPORT; NIH
The diversity report confirms that minority applicants have significantly reduced success rates for grant applications (see ‘Uneven playing field’). Confronted with data such as these, “there are a number of scientists of colour who feel, at the end of the day, ‘What’s the point?’” says Reed Tuckson, vice-president and chief of medical affairs at the health-insurance firm United Health Group in Minnetonka, Minnesota, and one of three co-chairs of the diversity working group. That sentiment “really, really bothers me”, he adds. “We have got to turn [that] around.”

The report recommends, among other things, that the NIH launch a “bold”, well-funded competitive grant process to build infrastructure at institutions with a record of producing minority scientists, and that it launch an experiment to make applicants’ identities and institutions anonymous in the review process.

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