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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">NIH is seeking input from the community, particularly trainees, early-stage faculty, and others invested in the biomedical workforce, about challenges faced by the postdoctoral trainee community. An <a href="https://acd.od.nih.gov/working-groups/postdocs.html">NIH
Advisory Committee to the Director Working Group</a> has posted a <a href="https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-23-084.html">Request for Information</a> where you can share your insights on issues affecting and possible solutions to the
recent decline in postdoctoral trainees. Your responses will be used to help develop recommendations to address this problem which impacts U.S. competitiveness in biomedical research and innovation. Please consider <a href="https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-23-084.html">responding
to the RFI</a>, which closes on April 14, 2023. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The request is important because a lot of the constrains and guidelines that are used for postdoctoral researchers are aligned on NIH policies. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">You PDA<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Jonathan Cottet, Ph.D.</span></b><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Postdoctoral Associate<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">Vice President of the MIT Postdoctoral Association<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Laboratory for Energy and Microsystems Innovation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Massachusetts Institute of Technology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none">77 Massachusetts Avenue<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Cambridge, MA 02139<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Cell: +1 857 298 9401</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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