I’m confused…The entire world spent about $55B a year on Biomedical research, with the US employing thousands through the NIH with a $40B/yr budget. Now, the $40B is gone.
What are these scientists going to do in Europe or Canada?, because NONE of those governments of G8 have increased research funding and in Canada, 90% of grant proposals are not funded. So yeah, scientists are moving back to home countries to be cab drivers while governments waste billions on military purchases.
As for the US, 0% of basic research that leads to new drugs was done by Pharma. They cut off the heads of all their pipelines to what was a $T industry.
All this says China may be the place to go if you can do math in your head.
My father is always watching the French news (tv5 monde) and telling me to move to EU since they are snapping up as many scientists as they can. What he doesn’t understand is they are snapping up PIs who already have made a career. They don’t give a shit about some postdoc/RA/specialist. EU has plenty of bright young people for those roles, and as you said they don’t have the money to fund an army of professional lab rats. I would love to live abroad, seems like a great opportunity, but realistically I have no idea why they’d bother to interview someone who lives in another continent with generic science skills.
Well, to be fair, each person only has to find one job in order to make their move to another nation.
Also, if they are going to be targeted for other reasons (race, gender, religion, political views) in the longer term, or think they might, moving might be the far more preferable option even if they are initially not working in their field.
I’m confused…The entire world spent about $55B a year on Biomedical research, with the US employing thousands through the NIH with a $40B/yr budget. Now, the $40B is gone.
What are these scientists going to do in Europe or Canada?, because NONE of those governments of G8 have increased research funding and in Canada, 90% of grant proposals are not funded. So yeah, scientists are moving back to home countries to be cab drivers while governments waste billions on military purchases.
As for the US, 0% of basic research that leads to new drugs was done by Pharma. They cut off the heads of all their pipelines to what was a $T industry.
All this says China may be the place to go if you can do math in your head.
My father is always watching the French news (tv5 monde) and telling me to move to EU since they are snapping up as many scientists as they can. What he doesn’t understand is they are snapping up PIs who already have made a career. They don’t give a shit about some postdoc/RA/specialist. EU has plenty of bright young people for those roles, and as you said they don’t have the money to fund an army of professional lab rats. I would love to live abroad, seems like a great opportunity, but realistically I have no idea why they’d bother to interview someone who lives in another continent with generic science skills.
And have they increased the research budget to pay for all this research? Nope.
Well, to be fair, each person only has to find one job in order to make their move to another nation.
Also, if they are going to be targeted for other reasons (race, gender, religion, political views) in the longer term, or think they might, moving might be the far more preferable option even if they are initially not working in their field.
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