The Job Market

Concern for lab safety advances -- slowly -- while University of California postdoc contract negotiations stall.

Physicists, mathematicians, and others are finding new ways to apply quantitative skills to biomedical sciences.

Electronic patient data and research repositories mean new opportunities in medical informatics.

Most universities continue to tightly constrain faculty hiring, but a few are taking advantage of a rich applicant pool.

The logistics can be intimidating, but there are rewards in going to the United States for a postdoc.