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Career Development among American Biomedical Postdocs

*Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program, Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20850

Science of Research and Technology Branch, Behavioral Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20850

^‡These authors contributed equally to this work.

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John McGready

Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205

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Kimberly Griffin

Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205

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Graham F. Hatfull, Monitoring Editor

Published Online:13 Oct 2017https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.15-03-0075

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Submitted: 26 March 2015

Revised: 11 August 2015

Accepted: 18 August 2015

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© 2015 K. D. Gibbs et al. CBE—Life Sciences Education © 2015 The American Society for Cell Biology. This article is distributed by The American Society for Cell Biology under license from the author(s). It is available to the public under an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 3.0 Unported Creative Commons License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0).

We thank Keith Micoli, Chris Pickett, and Sibby Anderson-Thompkins for their thoughtful feedback before submission. This work was supported, in part, by a generous grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund (Grant Number 1011798). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. K.D.G. is a member of the board of directors for the National Postdoctoral Association. Findings and views expressed in this work are those of the authors alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of any organization with which they are affiliated.

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