Thousands of young researchers come from different parts of the world every year to take up postdoctoral (postdoc) research fellowship positions in the developed countries. In the US alone, there were 48,601 postdocs in the year 2005 working in different labs in the fields of science, health and engineering. Many pursue this option for lack of other alternatives. Expectedly, these individuals f...

The Third Conference on Education in Clinical Chemistry was organized by the Board of Directors of the Commission on Accreditation in Clinical Chemistry (COMACC) and was held at the Sheraton Gateway Suites, O’Hare Airport in Chicago, IL, on September 29–October 1, 1995. The two previous conferences had been held in Columbus, OH, in 1973 [1] and Chicago, IL, in 1975 [2]; the 1975 conference had ...

As a group of Health System Impact (HSI) postdoctoral fellows, Sim and colleagues offer their reflections on ‘driving change’ within the health system and present a framework for understanding the HSI fellow as an embedded researcher. Our commentary offers a different perspective of the fellow’s role by highlighting the integrated knowledge translation (IKT) approach we...

Key points The lack of formal training in peer review can be detrimental to the publishing activities early career researchers, including graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Lack recognition work researchers (ECRs) means that journals cannot easily identify them as potential reviewers future. Participation peer‐reviewers increases understanding their own writing process. ECRs highly mot...

Purpose While postdoctoral research (postdoc) training is a common step toward academic careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields, the role of postdoc social sciences less clear. An increasing number science PhDs are pursuing postdocs. This paper aims to identify factors associated with participation examines relationship between subsequent career outcomes, inclu...

3.1 Members Toshiyuki Imamura (Team Leader) Yoshiharu Ohi (PostDoctoral Researcher) Yusuke Hirota (PostDoctoral Researcher) Daichi Mukunoki (PostDoctoral Researcher) Daisuke Takahashi (Senior Visiting Researcher) Franz Franchetti (Visiting Researcher) Yoshio Okamoto (Visiting Researcher) Takeshi Fukaya (Visiting Researcher) Cong Li (Student Trainee) Doru Thom Popovich (Student Trainee) Yukiko A...

The VII SERB School in Neuroscience was organized by Dr. Joby Joseph, and Dr. Kaveri Rajaraman during 9-21Dec. 2013 at the Centre for Neural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Hyderabad to encourage young neuroscientists. It was funded by SERB, Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India. Twenty two participants (Ph.D. scholars, postdoctoral fellows or young faculty members) o...

Dr. Will Guilford is an associate professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Virginia, and the current Undergraduate program director. He received his B.S. in Biology and Chemistry from St. Francis College in Ft. Wayne, Ind. and his Ph.D. in Physiology from the University of Arizona. Dr. Guilford did his postdoctoral training in Molecular Biophysics at the University of Vermont un...