TOP 30 INSTITuTIONS uSA

rAnk 2012 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 rAnk 2011 1 7 8 6 4 52 5 37 11 14 16 19 22 9 31 55 58 39 42 70 25 21 17 28 38 36 inSTiTuTion Whitehead institute for Biomedical research Cambridge, MA The J. David gladstone institutes San Francisco, CA Fox chase cancer center Philadelphia, PA pennington Biomedical research center Baton Rouge, LA oklahoma Medical research Foundation Oklahoma City, OK Argonne national laboratory Argonne, IL la Jolla institute for Allergy & immunology La Jolla, CA Donald Danforth plant Science center Saint Louis, MO novartis institutes for BioMedical research Cambridge, MA Stowers institute for Medical research Kansas City, MO Scripps institution of oceanography San Diego, CA emory university Atlanta, GA national cancer institute Bethesda/Frederick, MD children's hospital of philadelphia Philadelphia, PA Medical college of Wisconsin Milwaukee, WI university of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham, AL uS naval research laboratory Washington, DC Fred hutchinson cancer research center Seattle, WA university of colorado Denver Denver, CO Brigham And Women's hospital Boston, MA university of iowa Iowa City, IA university of Washington Seattle, WA Duke university Durham, North Carolina harvard university Cambridge, MA university of pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA university of Texas M.D. Anderson cancer center Houston, TX Washington university in Saint louis Saint Louis, MO roswell park cancer institute Buffalo, NY university of north carolina at chapel hill Chapel Hill, NC north carolina State university Raleigh, NC STrengThS Facilities and Infrastructure Pay and Benefits Pay and Benefits Funding Equity Communication Family and Personal Life Training and Mentoring Communication Pay and Benefits Value of the Postdoc Experience Family and Personal Life Facilities and Infrastructure Value of the Postdoc Experience Pay and Benefits Communication Facilities and Infrastructure Family and Personal Life Training and Mentoring Facilities and Infrastructure Career Development Opportunities Family and Personal Life Facilities and Infrastructure Training and Mentoring Equity Career Development Opportunities Facilities and Infrastructure Funding Funding Facilities and Infrastructure Career Development Opportunities Funding Family and Personal Life Equity Funding Value of the Postdoc Experience Facilities and Infrastructure Communication Equity Career Development Opportunities Family and Personal Life Funding Facilities and Infrastructure Family and Personal Life Family and Personal Life Career Development Opportunities Communication Career Development Opportunities Value of the Postdoc Experience Training and Mentoring Funding Pay and Benefits Funding Facilities and Infrastructure Communication Funding Family and Personal Life Facilities and Infrastructure Family and Personal Life Equity WeAkneSSeS Family and Personal Life Communication Equity Facilities and Infrastructure Facilities and Infrastructure Pay and Benefits Facilities and Infrastructure Career Development Opportunities Funding Value of the Postdoc Experience Funding Facilities and Infrastructure Family and Personal Life Communication Family and Personal Life Facilities and Infrastructure Value of the Postdoc Experience Training and Mentoring Family and Personal Life Career Development Opportunities Training and Mentoring Funding Equity Career Development Opportunities Funding Communication Communication Training and Mentoring Pay and Benefits Career Development Opportunities Facilities and Infrastructure Equity Facilities and Infrastructure Training and Mentoring Family and Personal Life Communication Equity Funding Family and Personal Life Funding Value of the Postdoc Experience Communication Career Development Opportunities Communication Communication Training and Mentoring Pay and Benefits Family and Personal Life Family and Personal Life Career Development Opportunities Family and Personal Life Career Development Opportunities Equity Communication Equity Value of the Postdoc Experience Career Development Opportunities Funding Facilities and Infrastructure Funding

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TOP 10 INSTITuTIONS uSA

rAnk inSTiTuTion Whitehead institute for Biomedical research Cambridge, MA poSTDocS 131 SAlAry $50,100$53,300 poSTDoc reSourceS Director's fellowship Training and second mentor programs Scientific leadership & laboratory management program Postdoc office BeneFiTS Heath Retirement Life insurance Health Relocation Retirement Child care

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The J. David gladstone institutes San Francisco, CA

128

$43,900$75,000

Fox chase cancer center Philadelphia, PA

67

$38,500$43,500

Heath Postdoc association Life insurance Annual grant-writing course Alternative career opportunities Internal funding Grant writing workshops Postdoc office Postdoc association Representatives at annual NPA meeting Development program Annual retreat Development and mentoring programs Postdoc office Development and mentoring programs Postdoc association Mentoring program Weekly mentoring research seminars Development program Postdoc retreat Postdoc office Development program Annual Young Investigator Research Symposium" Health Life, and disability insurance Retirement Health Life, and disability insurance Retirement

pennington Biomedical research center Baton Rouge, Louisiana

27

$38,500$60,000

oklahoma Medical research Foundation Oklahoma City, OK

52

NIH scale; starts at $38,496$43,476

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Argonne national laboratory Argonne, IL

312

$55,000$91,700

Heath Retirement Health Life, and disability insurance Retirement Health Life, and disability insurance Retirement Health Life, and disability insurance Relocation Health Life, and disability insurance Retirement

la Jolla institute for Allergy & immunology La Jolla, CA

94

$40,000$60,000

Donald Danforth plant Science center Saint Louis, MO

28

$45,096 (average)

novartis institutes for Biomedical research Cambridge, MA

67

starts at $55,000

Stowers institute for Medical research Kansas City, MO

93

$39,000$62,000

TOP 5 INSTITuTIONS INTERNATIONAL

rAnk inSTiTuTion champalimaud Foundation Lisbon, Portugal institute of Molecular Biotechnology (iMBA) Vienna, Austria poST-DocS 52 SAlAry 36,533 (average) poSTDoc reSourceS Development program Postdoc office Development program Postdoc office BeneFiTS Health

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46,788

National health Relocation Childcare Health Pension Accident and unemployment insurance National health Pension Accident insurance Health (private in Horsham, Shangai) Retirement (Shanghai) Pension (Horsham, Basel) Housing allowance (Shanghai)

center for Molecular Medicine (ceMM) Vienna, Austria

22

47,345 (average)

Development program Yearly retreat

Friedrich Miescher institute for Biomedical research Basel, Switzerland novartis institutes for Biomedical research multinational

98

CHF 79,80084,000

Postdoc association Training at Novartis Core facilities

6 Horsham) 50 (Basel) 8 (Shanghai)

Development program starts at Postdoc office 33,000 (Horsham) CHF 84,000 (Basel) RMB132,000 (Shanghai)

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