Biomedical scientists who work outside academia will share information about their careers with the University of California, San Francisco, as part of a programme funded by the US National Institutes of Health. The effort, Motivating Informed Decisions (MIND), aims to educate graduate students and postdocs about non-academic research and career paths. The university plans to recruit a few hundred professionals as MIND volunteers over the next couple of years, says programme manager Elizabeth Silva. "What we hope it will do is expose trainees to careers that they didn't know about" she says. Data such as the skills, tasks, and degrees required for a job will be aggregated and anonymized into a resource called the 'MINDbank' that could eventually help science trainees throughout the United States.
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