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UBC is Canada's front-runner

UBC is Canada's front-runnerJennifer Bishop, UBC PhD student, and UBC professor B. Brett Finlay.© Martin Dee By Andrea GawrylewskiARTICLE EXTRAS Feature: Best Places to Work 2007 Top 40 North American institutions Iowa surges again Industry postdocs make the grade Assessing the postdoc experience Most important factors Least important factors Top 15 North American institutions Interactive map of resultsM.D. Anderson tops 2007 list New multi-mill

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By Andrea Gawrylewski

Feature: Best Places to Work 2007

Top 40 North American institutions

Iowa surges again

Industry postdocs make the grade

Assessing the postdoc experience

Most important factors

Least important factors

Top 15 North American institutions

Interactive map of results

M.D. Anderson tops 2007 list

New multi-million dollar research facilities and small lab groups have helped make the University of British Columbia in Vancouver the only Canadian institution on our list of top 15 places to do a postdoc. Like others in the top 15, a close relationship with the principal investigator can make a world of difference in the postdoc experience. In the case of UBC, the 202 postdocs in life sciences are spread out in the sprawling new life sciences institute, opened in 2005. The institute is one of the results of $700 million given by the Canada Foundation for Innovation over the past six years.

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