Suit Seeks Redress for a Start-Up Package Gone Sour

摘要

Kelly Suter was nervous about trying to launch her lab with the $230,000 start-up package that accompanied the offer of a tenure-track position in the biology department at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). She would be bringing nearly $1 million in grants from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) with her from the University of Louisville, Kentucky, proof that she was good. But her work, investigating neurons whose oscillations underlie the release of a hormone that governs sexual reproduction, was expensive.