The writing on the wall.

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is professor emeritus in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology , University of California at San Francisco, United States . He blogs about the challenges and opportunities associated with biomedical research at biomedwatch.wordpress.com . His research was supported by the NIH from 1969 to 2008, and he served as a reviewer of grant applications at intervals during this period.

Published: March 2013

The biomedical research enterprise in the US has become unsustainable and urgent action is needed to address a variety of problems, including a lack of innovation, an over-reliance on soft money for faculty salaries, the use of graduate students as a source of cheap labour, and a 'holding tank' full of talented postdocs with limited career opportunities.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3608244PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.00642DOI Listing

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