BIOMEDICAL TRAINING:
NIH Pledges Big Hike In Postdoc Stipends
Jeffrey Mervis
Acknowledging that its stipends for graduate students and postdocs are too low, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to raise them significantly over the next 5 years--and then keep them competitive. NIH is also throwing its weight behind efforts to curb the length of a postdoc's tenure.