Meeting the Nation's Needs for Biomedical and Behavioral Scientists Summary of the 1993 Public Hearings (1994) / Chapter Skim
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on the training needs of our country. This is an area of interest to me, having served on the NIH study section for training grants in Genetics a dozen years ago, and I have been serving as the Program Director of the NIH training grant in Molecular and Cell Biology at Brown University for the past decade.
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do not need to write grants, so will not be competing in the grant pool. Can predoctoral training grants influence the number of Ph.D.s being produced in the biological sciences?
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Training grants afford a flexibility in choice of mentor that would be impossible if students were locked into a particular lab's research grant in their first year. It is inappropriate to have students take courses when they should be spending their full effort on research for the research grant which supports them, so research grant support is best justified for more advanced graduate students.
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(4) Strengthen NRSA quality training: Maintain the "above the line" non-trainee expenses allocated to predoctoral training grants, which often is used to support the graduate program seminar series,research day retreats, etc.
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