Your skills, accomplishments, and professional style—how you go about getting results—are hard to discern when reduced to a list of degrees, honors, and publications. If you did the heavy lifting be sure to get the credit. Contributions that aren’t typically captured in your CV need to stay in active memory and be available to share […]
…a deceptively simple question that can be interpreted in several ways.
Remember you are marketing your ideas. Give your pitch to colleagues, family and friends until the innovation and value-proposition are clear in plain language.
If you have or had an NIH Loan Repayment Program award, you can pay it forward by becoming an LRP Ambassador.
“Stressed?” Of course. In fact, it would probably be a little concerning if you were not stressed at this point. Let’s talk about skills to build resilience.
The PI career seems to have become the “alternative career”
Diversified mentoring is key. What to look for in a mentor panel and how to form one.
With several years of flat federal support for science, is it still reasonable to require one or two independent research grants (R01s) before going up for tenure? For some institutions, the answer is slowly changing from “yes” to “not quite.” At certain universities, scientists with many papers under their belts whose work is very interdisciplinary […]
All research proposals – grants, dissertations, internal funding – must ace the description of aims.
Let NIH tell you common pitfalls, how to find the best study section, and what reviewers want. We’ve linked you directly to each point in this video.