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Best in Academia, 2011

Meet some of the finalists of this year's Best Places to Work in Academia survey. Read the full story. [gallery]

By | July 1, 2011

The Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research illuminates in the evenings at #1-ranked international institution, the Weizmann Institute of Science.Courtesy of the Weizmann Institute of Science
Steven Kauder (right) and Eric Verdin examine HIV DNA in the Flow Cytometry Lab at this year's #1 US institution, The J. David Gladstone Institutes.Gladstone | C. Goodfellow
Postdoctoral fellow Ken Colodner studies the molecular mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative diseases in a neurobiology lab at Children’s Hospital Boston, this year's #5 ranked US institution.Patrick Bibbins, Children’s Hospital Boston
Established in 1818, #4-ranked international institution Dalhousie University sits on the picturesque Halifax peninsula in Nova Scotia, Canada, and is home to over 15,000 full-time undergraduate and graduate students.Dalhousie University Photography Services
Dr. Maralice Conacci-Sorrell (left), a postdoctoral fellow, and Celine Ngouenet, research technician, found a new form of the Myc-encoded protein, dubbed Myc-nick. Both work in the Hutchinson Center’s Basic Science Division.Dean Forbes | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Neuroscience professor Italo Mocchetti (far left) mentors doctoral students as part of Georgetown University’s Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience, a multi-disciplinary collaboration encompassing 14 university departments.Joe Shymanski | Freelancer, 2009
A greenhouse at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, this year's 8th-ranked US institution, illuminates at night.Danforth Plant Science Center
Scientists at the Groningen Neuroimaging Center examine a 3D visualization of a human brain in the
Tom Broderick, a professor of physiology at Midwestern University, this year's 6th-ranked US institution, working on his research on the heart and diabetes.Midwestern University
Justin Pita, a senior research associate from the Ivory Coast (left), and Xin Ding, a research scientist from China, evaluate tall fescue plants in a greenhouse at The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, which ranked 7th among US institutions this year.Broderick Stearns
Representatives from Hospital for Sick Children, #7 among international institutions this year, and members of the Ontario government tour the Physiological Research Unit at SickKids.SickKids
The Jackson Laboratory, #13 among US institutions this year, is located on scenic Mount Desert Island in coastal Maine, adjacent to Acadia National Park.The Jackson Laboratory
Tim Griffin studies the role of the weight-regulating hormone leptin in the progression of arthritis at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, #10 among US institutions this year.Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation

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