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Employment Trends in Biomedical – NIH Visualization Tool of Job Segmentation for Life Scientists

January 24, 2018 by 2012pharmaceutical

Employment Trends in Biomedical – NIH Visualization Tool of Job Segmentation for Life Scientists

Reporter: Aviva Lev-Ari, PhD, RN

Led by Tammy Collins, Ph.D., director of the NIEHS Office of Fellows’ Career Development, team members collected detailed career outcomes for more than 900 NIEHS postdoctoral fellows over the past 15 years. Postdoctoral fellows, or postdocs, are scientists who have received their doctoral degrees and are participating in a program that offers additional training.

Lead author and NIEHS computer scientist Hong Xu analyzed the data using the R Project for Statistical Computing, a free online program that displays data using graphs and charts. Shyamal Peddada, Ph.D., former NIEHS head of the Biostatistics and Computational Biology Branch, served as key advisor. The study appeared online in the journal Nature Biotechnology, and is the first standardized method for categorizing career outcomes of NIEHS postdocs.

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SOURCE

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/new-tool-visualizes-employment-trends-biomedical-science

Xu H, Gilliam RST, Peddada SD, Buchold GM, Collins TRL. 2018. Visualizing detailed postdoctoral employment trends using a new career outcome taxonomy. Nat Biotechnol; doi: 10.1038/nbt.4059 [Online 15 January 2018].