Neuroscience
In recent decades, neuroscience has emerged as a star among the biological disciplines. But its enormous popularity as an academic career choice has been accompanied by a drop in the percentage of trained neuroscientists who actually work in academic research positions – largely because of lack of funding. Steven Hyman of the Broad Institute of the MIT and Harvard University welcomes the flood of doctoral students choosing the field but warns: 'Insofar as talented young people are discouraged from academic careers by funding levels so low that they produce debilitating levels of competition or simply foreclose opportunities, the U.S. and the world are losing an incredibly precious resource.'