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National Cancer Institute

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Embarrassment of riches - Tenure Track Investigator National Cancer Institute Employee Review

3.0
Mar 18, 2016
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Pros

Excellent technical and animal resources. Excellent clinical research infrastructure. Possibility of many collaborations internally. General funding stability although rapidly loosing purchasing power due to inflation.

Cons

Poor institute level management in the Center for Cancer Research (intra-mural NIH). Complete lack of vision. Attitude of maintaining status quo even for underperforming research and clinical groups. Underutilized clinical center. Rapid loss of a critical mass of physician-scientists to the extramural community in recent years.

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Pros

nice projects and great science

Cons

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5.0
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Pros

You don't have to necessarily apply for grants to run your experiments, each lab has a budget and you can spend a lot of money for very ambitious (and expensive) work, if your lab has the funds

Cons

You depend on the government completely. If there is a shutdown, you aren't working. If priorities change, then research priorities change as well...

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