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HHMI to Spend $300Million on Supporting Young Faculty

By apalazzo on March 11, 2008.

From the HHMI website:

Through a national competition that opens today, HHMI plans to select as many as 70 early career scientists from a wide range of scientific disciplines relevant to biological and medical inquiry. These scientists, most of whom will be assistant professors at the time of the award, will receive six-year, non-renewable appointments to HHMI and receive the substantial research support necessary to move their research in creative, new directions. HHMI will invest more than $300 million in this first group of scientists and plans a second competition in 2011.

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HHMI is focusing on researchers who have led independent laboratories for two to six years at one of the approximately 200 U.S. medical schools, universities, and research institutes that are eligible.

While we're on the subject check out this site: A Broken Pipeline? Flat Funding for the NIH Puts a Generation of Science at Risk. (HT: DrugMonkey)

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