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In California, new postdoctoral appointments receive at least the NIH postdoctoral minimum salary ($50,004 in 2019) and many receive annual pay raises of 5% to 7% or more in accordance with the NIH's Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards (NRSA).
The contract [17] was ratified on August 11, 2010 with 96 percent of the vote, [18] and made significant advances in pay, health benefits and safety on the job for postdocs. [4] Postdoc negotiators were successful in linking minimum salaries to an experience-based scale set by the NIH for NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowships. [19]
The first stand-alone postdoctoral researcher union was UAW Local 5810 at the University of California system. [1] As of 2010 it represented about 6,400 postdoctoral researchers, [2] which was estimated to be about 10% of the United States total, [5] and is the largest postdoctoral researcher union in North America. [6]
The NIH is the largest funder of UC federal research, providing $2.6 billion in 2023-24 — 62% of the university's federal awards that year. ... whose salary is funded by the NIH, said her ...
There are numerous funding mechanisms for different project types (e.g., basic research, clinical research, etc.) and career stages (e.g., early career, postdoc fellowships, etc.). The NIH regularly issues "requests for applications" (RFAs), e.g., on specific programmatic priorities or timely medical problems (such as Zika virus research in ...
As of 2010, there were 6,697 employees working in Public Health Service Title 42 positions. Of these, 4,879 were in the National Institutes of Health (NIH), 929 were in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 862 were in the Food and Drug Administration, and 27 were in other agencies. This accounted for 25% of all NIH employees ...
The NIH awarded $77,000,000 in individual grants and over $600,000,000 in institutional training grants in fiscal year 2005. [ 1 ] NRSA awards are mostly given to students working on a Ph.D. or an MD or other medical degree, or to individuals who have just earned one of these degrees and are beginning their careers.
The National Postdoctoral Association (NPA) is a nonprofit, 501(c)3 educational organization in the United States that is dedicated to enhancing the quality of the postdoctoral experience for all participants. Since its founding in 2003, more than 200 institutions have adopted portions of the NPA's Recommended Postdoctoral Policies and Practices.