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Nov 09, 2011
Tallahassee.com
PRESS RELEASE
Bio-technology companies looking for the next great idea rely increasingly on the talent and innovations of university researchers, so much so that today's Ph.D. scientists are more likely to work in industry than in academia. "The point here is that science has changed," neuroscientist Richard Nowakowski told the audience at Tuesday's symposium on "The Business of Life Sciences." Today, only about 15 percent of U.S. scientists with doctorates remain in academia. The rest work in some industry somewhere, said Nowakowski, chairman of biomedical sciences at the Florida State University College of Medicine.