How to Get Funding for Your New Labs

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In the us, it's common for new scientists to get enough money to run for at least a couple of years. But in the u k, a university will often offer you a job and then expect you to win grants. The longer it takes him to get money, the more his hypotheses go stale. This is just the sort of positive thinking dan an alley will need to carry them through. And as hard as it might be to keep their heads above water, at least allye and dan have found jobs.

Every year, thousands of scientists struggle to launch their own labs. For three years, a reporting team from Nature documented the lives of married couple Alison Twelvetrees and Daniel Bose as they worked to get their fledgling research groups off the ground.

Frustrations over funding, a global pandemic, and a personal trauma have made this journey anything but simple for Ali and Dan. Listen to their story in Starting up in science.

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What does it take to start up in science? Meet two biologists fighting the odds to build their careers and break new ground. But their first priority is getting grants – without them, their labs might not stay afloat.

Read a written version of Starting up in science

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