As a postdoctoral fellow entering the market for biology faculty positions, I was happy to hear that 25% of NIH Research grants are going to new investigators who have never received an RO1 (Editorial, "Just give them grants," A. I. Leshner, 16 May, p. 849). My sense of schadenfreude was fulfilled to hear that these funds will come off the backs of senior investigators who, despite clearly being deadwood, are hogging multiple grants. But then I wondered what will happen to me in the phase between being a new investigator and a senior investigator. Surely there must be some intermediate step.
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