AAAS Helps Launch National Postdoc Group

摘要

From the moment they formed their new organization, the founders of the National Postdoc Association (NPA) have had a sense that their timing was right. They knew it for sure on January 14, when Elias Zerhouni, director of the National Institutes of Health, made a spontaneous appearance at a meeting the postdocs had set up with NIH officials. "He walked in to tell us how important postdocs are to the scientific enterprise, and that he had heard about our efforts," said Orfeu Buxton, a member of the NPA's Steering Committee and a sleep and neu-roendocrinology researcher at the University of Chicago.