Others were graduate or medical students (n = 17, 9%), postdoctoral fellows (n = 10, 5%) and research staff (n = 5, 3%).
Some 2,875 assistant professors, 1,204 postdoctoral candidates, and 978 brand-new Ph.D.s will apply.
A tiny university with only 69 faculty members, 150 graduate students and 290 postdoctoral researchers, it has collected two Nobel Prizes in the last two years.
But let me venture one prediction: There will be lots of talk about the male chauvinists on the Swedish Medical Research Council who awarded 20 postdoctoral fellowships in 1994.
The university, on a grassy, tree-shaded oasis on the East Side of Manhattan, is a tiny school, with only about 70 faculty members, 150 graduate students and 290 postdoctoral researchers.
"Our interest is to figure out what happens at the level of neurons, which are cells in the brain, and synapses, which are the connections between the cells in the brains," said Dr. Svoboda, who heads a lab with 10 postdoctoral students, 4 graduate students plus a handful of technicians.
The university also holds 3 postdoctoral research stations.
(2) Postdoctoral fellows: the number should be increased, but there is inadequate financial support.
The government has already achieved the target of 10,000 postdoctoral positions.
In addition, the foundation provides 80 to 90 postdoctoral training grants every year.
