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Reconfiguring a professional and personal life takes serious planning. Here are five pointers from professors with recent sabbatical experience.

Across Europe, policy makers and research institutions are finding ways to boost science in an uncertain economy.

The need for new treatments and a better understanding of brain disorders offer researchers an abundance of career opportunities.

Beijing and Shanghai are two cities at the forefront of Chinese science, offering scientists ample career opportunities.

Biopharmas that have fared well despite global economic turmoil have done so using various strategies—and by valuing and respecting the scientists who work for them.

For academics who recognize that their discovery or innovation can be commercialized, it is key to find avenues to balance professorial and entrepreneurial activities.

Respondents to this year's Annual Postdoc Survey share their advice for staying competitive in today's job market.

Business and university leaders are seeking ways to increase personnel diversity to promote innovation.

Scientists interested in a career in biotechnology/pharmaceuticals must learn to navigate the choppy waters that occur during mergers and acquisitions.

Each western U.S. biocluster has its own history, unique personality, and distinct area of focus. Here’s a guide to three of them.

Explore the history and career trends of three eastern U.S. bioclusters: Massachusetts, Maryland/ Washington, DC, and North Carolina.

The cancer vaccine field is growing rapidly, offering ample opportunities for graduate students and postdocs to grow their careers.

More and more postdocs (and even grad students) are demonstrating their ingenuity in where and how they seek and secure the necessary research resources.

The number of women embarking on science careers has been increasing steadily during the past several decades. Although women scientists continue to be underrepresented at the faculty level, many women have established rewarding and successful careers in science—thanks in part to having had role models and mentors whose paths they could follow.

As a “home away from home” for many scientists, labs are replete with interpersonal dynamics. But PI’s can help set a positive tone.

B.S.- and M.S.-level professionals are finding more and more opportunities in industry and are often considered strategically important to a company’s growth.