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Best Place to Work as a Postdoc

Category: Lab Life
Posted on: March 6, 2008 3:26 PM, by Alex Palazzo

According to the latest issue of The Scientist.

Rankings for American institutions:

1 The J. David Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, CA 2 National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Denver, CO 3 Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 4 Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 5 M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston TX 6 Genentech, South San Francisco, CA 7 Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA 8 The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, OK 9 The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME 10 Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA 11 US Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC 12 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 13 Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA 14 Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA 15 Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA

Internationally (excluding the US):

1 University of Cambridge, UK 2 University of Liverpool, UK 3 University of Nottingham, UK 4 Edinburgh University, UK 5 Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada 6 Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland 7 University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada 8 University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada 9 Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam 10 University of Toronto, Canada

As with all rankings, we're not sure what this really means. Go check out the article (link).

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Uh huh. And how many of those places have a beach right on the campus like they do at Northwestern University?

Posted by: Bayesian Bouffant, FCD | March 7, 2008 1:42 PM

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