{"id":128308,"date":"2021-09-29T20:23:32","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T03:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/starting-up-in-science"},"modified":"2021-09-29T20:23:32","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T03:23:32","slug":"starting-up-in-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/starting-up-in-science","title":{"rendered":"Starting up in science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/starting-up-in-science2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every year, a few hundred scientists in the United Kingdom try to establish new labs from scratch; globally, thousands of researchers become heads of their own labs. From the outset, it\u2019s a chase for money and a time of intense pressure as scientists try to build research programmes while juggling teaching, fundraising, publishing and family life. Ali began her lab with just \u00a315,000 in grants to cover equipment and experiments; Dan had \u00a320,000. Both need to recruit PhD students, and Dan must also devise and deliver a programme of lectures.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Two researchers. Three years. One pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, a few hundred scientists in the United Kingdom try to establish new labs from scratch; globally, thousands of researchers become heads of their own labs. From the outset, it\u2019s a chase for money and a time of intense pressure as scientists try to build research programmes while juggling teaching, fundraising, publishing and family [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,32,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-education","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}