(Philadelphia, PA - February 2005) The United States Environmental Protection Agency campus in Research Triangle Park, NC, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, and the National Cancer Institute campuses in Maryland provide the best work environments for life science postdocs in the US, according to the rankings in The Scientist's 3rd annual Best Places to Work for Postdocs survey.
The University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, landed the top three spots for US academic institutions, while Umea Plant Science Center and Uppsala University, both in Sweden, and the Netherlands Cancer Institute earned top honors for institutions outside the US.
The more than 3500 postdocs who responded to this year's survey rated a valuable training experience, access to research equipment and library resources, and a good mentoring relationship as the ingredients that make for ...
