Insightful article on the proteomics expert shortage!

 

As a lot of people know I've been trying to find the funds and opportunity to launch a formal degree program in proteomics for...a while... I'm cautiously optimistic that I might have found an interested audience with the money and the authority to make it happen. We'll see, though! Honestly - it can almost feel like escapism to put your head down and prep a couple hundred samples for an instrument right now - or submit a crappy grant - but there is only so much protesting and complaining that we can do. (That's what I'm telling myself, anyway!) 

As I'm rebuilding and upgrading the pitch deck from the last time I did it - there is all sorts of cool new stuff out there. Not only overly optimistic market growth numbers, but also things like this insightful article. 

If you don't feel like reading this - you could at least check out some excerpts like this one that I'm clearly going to be using. 

Of course, this, and probably my whole blog and enthusiasm for the growth of my field and science in general is all overshadowed by the terrifying and uninformed decisions being made in Washington DC - but -the US is a small landmass. And proteomics is global!