<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 19.0400009155273px;"><span style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">Earlier this year, the NIH proposed a new idea to help sustain the biomedical research workforce through an “<a href="http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-15-064.html">Emeritus Award for Senior Researchers</a>” and solicited feedback from biomedical scientists</span><span style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">. The idea behind the Emeritus Award was to help senior investigators transition out of a position reliant on NIH support and to transfer the research to junior colleagues, or to close a lab down (Kaiser, 2015). The reason for creating such an award is to free up research money for younger and more junior researchers. But before going into what scientists thought about the Emeritus Award, I would like to describe the current system of research funding in the U.S.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 19.0400009155273px;"><span style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">There are several prominent papers and reports that indicate that the biomedical research system in the U.S. is in crisis (Alberts et al., 2014; NSF, 2014; Holleman and Gritz, 2013; NIH, 2012; Martinson, 2011; Martinson, 2007). I just gave a lecture a few months back at a Career Symposium at my college to biomedical graduate students. The symposium had a panel of biomedical science trained speakers discuss alternate careers for biomedical students.</span></p>
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