For Ph.D. graduates in any of the sciences who are interested in cancer research, there are many ways to gain that broad perspective including interdisciplinary fellowships that require students to choose mentors from different disciplines, postdoctoral training programs outside of one's field, and institutional training programs.
We outline three experiments, On Recent Discoveries by Emory Researchers (ORDER), Fellowships in Research and Science Teaching (FIRST), and Interdisciplinary Fellowships in Science and Society (IFSS), as an integrated approach for pipeline repair.
This work is supported by grants RL1DE019021 and U01HG004258 (PJP), U01HG004264 (KPW), and a SysCODE interdisciplinary postdoctoral training fellowship through Common Fund grant 5RL9EB008539 (JWKH) from the National Institutes of Health.
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2393/13/77/prepub The data analysis was funded via an interdisciplinary post-doctoral fellowship from the Medical and the Economic and Social Research Councils to Heidi Stöckl (Grant Number: G0802699).
There's a certain irony in government and vice-chancellors championing this approach and funding the best graduates with competitive interdisciplinary studentships and fellowships, while not changing the conventions that make it so difficult for those who choose this route early in their careers to actually progress.
One possibility is the Human Frontiers Science Program, which provides long-term fellowships for interdisciplinary scientists pursuing international collaborative research.
And it will support fellowships and interdisciplinary graduate programs and partnerships between academic institutions and innovative companies to prepare a generation of Americans to meet this generational challenge".
This fellowship program fosters interdisciplinary collaboration and exchange between Stanford and French researchers and students.
AMZ was supported by a graduate fellowship through the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Partnership (ISEP), an NSF Math Science Partnership program, #DUE 1102998.
The measure also would give big boosts to NSF's prestigious graduate research fellowships and its interdisciplinary graduate traineeships (IGERT), as well as boosting the number of schools offering professional science master's degree programs.
Foundation for Psychocultural Research The Foundation for Psychocultural Research will competitively award limited dissertation research fellowships aimed at advancing interdisciplinary research projects and scholarship at the intersection of psychology, culture, neuroscience and psychiatry, with emphasis on psychocultural factors as central, not peripheral.
