Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, a government laboratory funded primarily by the US Department of Energy, hires about 50 percent of its postdocs as permanent staff members.
NICTA, a media laboratory funded by the Australian government, has gone a stage further.
He took this approach into his subsequent post as assistant director at the Unit for Nitrogen Fixation, a laboratory funded by the Agricultural Research Council with the aim of understanding how bacteria could be used to take nitrogen gas from the atmosphere and reduce it to ammonia for use in agricultural fertiliser.
For three decades I have treated patients with blood diseases and run a medical research laboratory funded mostly by government grants.
Institutional support in terms of laboratory funding, protected time for research, billing and coding assistance, and endorsement of one's Credentialing Committee are also significant components of a successful program.
I was at a transition point when the internship came up: My technician position was in the teeter-totter space of termination if the granting agency didn't renew the laboratory funding.
SGK was further funded by the Animal Health Strategic Investment, and laboratory funding was acquired through the Canadian Foundation for Innovation and the Ontario Research Fund.
Dr. Hotchkiss has received research laboratory funding from MedImmune, Bristol Meyers Squibb, Pfizer, Agennix, Aurigene and the National Institutes of Health grants GM055194 and GM044118.
This work was supported by fellowship grants from the German Research Foundation Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaftto to MD (DE 1685/1-1) and RCF (FR 2555/3-1), by laboratory funds of WMZ and National Institutes of Health grant R01 HL101930 to FI. CA was supported by the Arthur Sachs Scholarship Fund.
In each case, they worked in high-security laboratories — funded, in part, by the United States government.
These measures will be used for completing and building new laboratories, funding research, providing equipment for research centres and building IT networks – the fastest ones, which are particularly important for science.
