Strategies from UW-Madison for rescuing biomedical research in the US

Judith Kimble; William M Bement; Qiang Chang; Benjamin L Cox; Norman R Drinkwater; Richard L Gourse; Aaron A Hoskins; Anna Huttenlocher; Pamela K Kreeger; Paul F Lambert; Marsha R Mailick; Shigeki Miyamoto; Richard L Moss; Kate M O'Connor-Giles; Avtar Roopra; Krishanu Saha; Hannah S Seidel

doi:10.7554/eLife.09305

Strategies from UW-Madison for rescuing biomedical research in the US

Elife. 2015 Jun 30:4:e09305. doi: 10.7554/eLife.09305.

Authors

Judith Kimble¹, William M Bement², Qiang Chang³, Benjamin L Cox⁴, Norman R Drinkwater⁵, Richard L Gourse⁶, Aaron A Hoskins⁷, Anna Huttenlocher⁸, Pamela K Kreeger⁹, Paul F Lambert⁵, Marsha R Mailick¹⁰, Shigeki Miyamoto¹¹, Richard L Moss¹², Kate M O'Connor-Giles¹³, Avtar Roopra¹⁴, Krishanu Saha¹⁵, Hannah S Seidel⁷

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, United States.
² Department of Zoology and Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, United States.
³ Laboratory of Genetics, Waisman Center and Department of Neurology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, United States.
⁴ Department of Medical Physics, Morgridge Institute for Research and Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, United States.
⁵ McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, United States.
⁶ Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, United States.
⁷ Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, United States.
⁸ Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology and Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, United States.
⁹ Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, United States.
¹⁰ Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, United States.
¹¹ McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research and Cell Signaling Program, Carbone Cancer Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, United States.
¹² School of Medicine and Public Health and Department of Cell and Regenerative Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, United States.
¹³ Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Laboratory of Genetics, and Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, United States.
¹⁴ Department of Neuroscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, United States.
¹⁵ Department of Biomedical Engineering and Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, United States.

Abstract

A cross-campus, cross-career stage and cross-disciplinary series of discussions at a large public university has produced a series of recommendations for addressing the problems confronting the biomedical research community in the US.

Keywords: NIH; careers in science; grad school; human biology; medicine; postdocs; science policy and funding.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Biomedical Research / economics*
Biomedical Research / trends*
Capital Financing
Peer Review, Research / methods*
Peer Review, Research / trends*
United States
Universities

Grants and funding

T32 GM008692/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States