title: A recipe for mediocrity and disaster, in five axioms.
abstract: Biomedical research in the US will become unsustainable unless scientists and research institutions start to question certain assumptions they have long taken for granted.
authors.affiliation: is professor emeritus at the Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology , University of California at San Francisco , San Francisco , United States . He blogs about the challenges and opportunities associated with biomedical research at biomedwatch.wordpress.com . His research was supported by the NIH from 1969 to 2008, and he served as a reviewer of grant applications at intervals during this period. henry.bourne@ucsf.edu.
authors.forename: Henry R
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Bourne
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000191:economics / Q000193:education / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D000078329:Workforce
keywords: NIH; careers in science; grad school; point of view; postdocs; science policy and funding