Cause of Berkeley funding problems

eastcoastbound
Sun, 04 Mar 2007 01:33:59 +0000

i personally saw people came into my lab and interviewed w/ my PI. mcb, chem bio, chemistry, biophysics do have recruitment trips. i talked to one of hopkins biophysics professors when i was interviewing there. he told me that NIH isn’t doing as well for last 5 or 6 years. of course, all the big projects are funded, and a lot of fundings are going to initiate new people. so that puts people who stuck in between at a disadvantage to receive money. that is true pretty much everywhere. i dont know why you think berkeley is much worse than other places. plus we (as of now Berkeley) just received $500M for ten years from BP, so every lab at berkeley will try to get a piece of that pie. and berkeley has a lot of HHMI and established faculties, and extensive industry connection, i wouldn’t be too worried about funding being cut.