by James1 » Tue Jan 24, 2006 8:21 am
R03 are small grants of 50K, for pilot projects I believe. Jerry, if you want an industry job, try to get one. Find industry people, apply to ads, network, ask mentors for help. Industry is looking for entirely different skills other than grant writing, including the desire to work in teams with the best people available to get things done. Generally, if you are not an established PI, you cannot do such projects in academia as a new PI. This is why I soured on academia, the inability to work on big projects with skilled teams of people who are the top of their fields.
If you need to take on a RAP to stay employed, do it. Just don't make any promises to your supervisor and keep looking for positions continuously. Make your goals clear. Go to society meetings too. Adam is right, there are many positions requiring drug dev and tox skills. Try to develop these to get a foot in like me.