Apart from the secrecy, one downside of CRO work or it may be an upside, depending on your inclination is that scientists usually hop from one project to another, spending anywhere from 2 weeks to 2 years on each one.
These providers have typically targeted enterprise-level companies and when you consider the various tools required for CRO success, it can add up to hundreds of dollars, if not thousands, per month.
Unfortunately, as reported in Cros: "… it seems likely that the expectations of many respondents seeking a long-term career in higher education will not be fulfilled.
The program is popular with CROs, as it is seen to provide a good pool of experienced graduates.
And if much of it is indebted to New York's storied past (be it Cro Mags or Wu Tang or Blondie or Ronnie Spector), there's more than a fair share of young blood malcontents (both native and transplant) making, or at least admirably striving to make, their own mark.
Get a cup of coffee from The Cro Cafe and pair it with a Doughnut Dolly just around the corner.
I figure if Polacks and Cro-Mags figured it out without manuals, then I'll be fine.
And it also just added Tim Weller, chairman of Trustpilot and Taptica, as its Chairman a few months ago, and announced former Upworthy CRO, Ben Zagorski as its North American Chief Revenue Officer.
But don't expect to present your work at those conferences after you get a CRO job or to publish it in peer-reviewed journals.
Ralph Harvey, CRO of FCS, claims that it can actually be quicker to retrieve an e-mail from the archive server through a stub than it would be to retrieve it from the primary server.
