Blog Comments

Kinetica Online is pleased to provide direct links to commentaries from our senior editor Dr. Steven Pelech has posted on other blogs sites. Most of these comments appear on the GenomeWeb Daily Scan website, which in turn highlight interesting blogs that have been posted at numerous sites in the blogosphere since the beginning of 2010. A wide variety of topical subjects are covered ranging from the latest scientific breakthroughs, research trends, politics and career advice. The original blogs and Dr. Pelech’s comments are summarized here under the title of the original blog. Should viewers wish to add to these discussions, they should add their comments at the original blog sites.

The views expressed by Dr. Pelech do not necessarily reflect those of the other management and staff at Kinexus Bioinformatics Corporation. However, we wish to encourage healthy debate that might spur improvements in how biomedical research is supported and conducted.

New principal investigators

Francis Collins' Funding Problem

Despite possible cutbacks in the NIH's 2012 budget, its Director Francis Collins plans to launch an award in 2011 that would make it possible for promising young investigators to skip the postdoc stage and give them five years of funding to open their own labs. S. Pelech questions whether allowing these recent graduate students to skip the postdoc stage and to providing them with 5 years of funding to open their own labs is really a faster way to waste money and doom a promising young investigator to early failure. Read More...