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Commentary


Nature Medicine 8, 437 - 439 (2002)
doi:10.1038/nm0502-437

Emerging opportunities and career paths for the young physician-scientist

Ajit Varki1 & Leon E. Rosenberg2

  1. Departments of Medicine and Cellular & Molecular Medicine Glycobiology Research and Training Center University of California San Diego La Jolla, California, USA
    e-mail: avarki@ucsd.edu
  2. Department of Molecular Biology and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
    e-mail: rosenberg@princeton.edu

A recent 'Days of Molecular Medicine' Conference in La Jolla sponsored by the UCSD Institute for Molecular Medicine, the Salk Institute and Nature Medicine included a forum for discussion of the current status of physician-scientist career pathways—with a particular focus on the pipeline of new recruits. Forum participants included representatives from academia, private foundations, medical research societies and the pharmaceutical industry.