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Junior Investigators' Tool Box Welcome to the Junior Investigators' Tool Box.
The links and resources on this page were compiled by ISSCR's dynamic Junior Investigators Committee (JIC). The JIC represents and promotes the interests of an international pool of young independent investigators and young aspiring stem cell researchers (young PIs, postdocs, medical and graduate students). The JIC's purpose is to foster networking and career building. It will also work on augmenting meeting attendance through travel grants and merit awards for young PIs. The complete list of JIC members and their e-mail addresses is available here. In order to address the issues and challenges surrounding stem cell research in various countries, the JIC includes representative junior members from Asia, Europe, and the Americas, and hope to encourage collaboration and communication between laboratories throughout the world to further the overall goal of understanding stem cell commitment, differentiation, and their potential uses for regenerative medicine and tissue engineering applications. The JIC will keep you posted on upcoming funding opportunities, communicate success stories, provide guidance on how to negotiate a start-up package, how to build your first lab, discuss mentoring issues, and more. Career Building Resources
This is a great site that contains a compiled list of training, mobility, and career building resources for international researchers at various career levels. The actions are open to researchers in many fields of scientific and technological research from EU member states, from countries associated with the EU’s 6th Framework Program (FP6) and from third countries. Eligibility is based on research experience and expertise, not age. Therefore, many experience levels are covered on this site. The actions are also open to business, universities and institutions active in research. USA This is a Web-based career tool that focuses on exploring career options, continuing education, employment opportunities, and the job search process. It is a highly selective guide and provides up-to-date information, which is available to both those within the NIH and those outside of it as well. This is a weekly career development magazine, which provides both tools and advice that focus on the choice of career paths and career-associated decisions. It deals with various career possibilities, including both research and non-research careers, and avenues leading to positions in academia, industry, and government. This is a career development tool organized by Science’s Next Wave for postdocs and junior faculty. It contains a section on getting hired, getting funded, research grant resources, publishing, managing your lab and staff, teaching, and tenure and other professional issues. There is also a section with book reviews and a section addressing immigration issues. Making the Right Moves: A Practical Guide to Scientific Management for Postdocs and New Faculty The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has published a collection of advice, experiences and opinions from seasoned biomedical investigators and other professionals as a practical guide for postdocs and new faculty.FUNDING AND POSITIONS K Kiosk - Information about NIH Career Development Awards
NIH Web site containing information for new investigators and others looking for grant opportunities outside of the NIH campus. This is a very broad page covering grant proposals, opportunities, and career-related information. It would be a nice starting point for a more focused search. An advertiser of academic and related vacancies for universities, medical centres, research institutes and research-based commercial organizations in the EU. Research and Training at the NIH This site lists opportunities for research training through the NIH according to entrance level, including information for the student, postdoctoral fellow, clinical researchers, tenure-track scientists, and those seeking continuing medical education. This is a career building resource run by Science Magazine that includes a searchable database of jobs, as well as job alerts, resources for improving or updating your CV, profiles of potential employers and links to their Web sites. It also offers information on meetings, career advice, career fairs, and connections to various graduate programs and Science’s Next Wave site for young researchers This is a Web site sponsored by Nature Publishing that focuses on job prospects, articles relating to career choice, opportunities and recruitment, personal interest stories, articles divided by region and education level. There are also links to job channels, organized for graduate students and postdocs, life science researchers, and scientists studying the physical sciences. This site describes NIH-funded grants for attendance of scientific meetings. These grants are awarded to U.S.-based organizations for travel to conferences. These awards can be awarded for one year or for multiple years, depending upon the specific circumstances. SCIENTIFIC RESOURCES This site sponsored by Nature Publishing is a comprehensive and up-to-date resource for people interested in signal transduction. The Gateway focuses on cellular signaling, and the information presented is freely available to all. There is a section presenting recent research on signaling and a molecule page that contains curated information on various signaling proteins. STKE – Signal Transduction Knowledge Environment This is a site sponsored by Science Magazine that contains links to recent publications on signaling molecules, resources for researchers, including forums and directories of STKE members, teaching resources and events, and connections maps of various signaling pathways. These resources are of interest to stem cell researchers studying specific signaling pathways, such as the BMPs, Wnts, and/or MAPK pathways. This is an introductory page with various links relating to stem cell funding, training grants, and other stem cell related programs. This page is organized by the NIH stem cell unit and includes links to several searchable databases of grants, as well as a list of training courses for stem cell research. This site offers a large and thorough list of stem cell related links, including directories and databases, news relating to stem cells, academic stem cell research programs, international and government-sponsored research, and various professional associations. There are also lists of organizations and advocacy groups interested in stem cell research, various educational resources, and links to patent information. Genomics and Bioinformatics Group at NCI Web site with links to molecular interaction maps, data-mining tools, and tools for organizing and visualizing DNA methylation data. EDUCATION Graduate Partnership at the NIH The GPP fosters graduate partnerships with national and international universities for education in both basic and clinical research. Students in the GPP spend their first year at their university and then move to the NIH campus for their research, although affiliation with the home university is maintained throughout the graduate program experience. This is available to students in U.S. medical and dental schools. Scholars spend approximately a year on the NIH campus, conducting basic, translational or applied biomedical research. The Howard Hughes Medical Institute provides the administration and funding for the program, while the NIH provides advisors, mentors, laboratory space, and equipment and supplies for laboratory work. Fellowships and Awards at the National Academy of Sciences This site offers links to awards relating to various research or health related fields. There is also information about policy-related opportunities and funding. The site also includes some opportunities for collaborative research between U.S. and Central European/Asian laboratories General Data from E-mail Submissions As former chair of the Associates Council of the Endocrine Society, I thought you would this link useful for ISSCR: http://www.endo-society.org/students/index.cfm As a board member and science committee member, I wanted you to be aware of Texans for Advancement of Medical Research, a patient advocate-driven group focused on supporting SCNT in Texas: http://www.txamr.org/ Updated: March 18, 2008 |
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