Hi-

For those of you with NIH NRSA awards (fellowships and training grants),
the recent (19 Nov) hefty increases in postdoc stipends is likely good
news.  God knows we need to keep postdocs happy and healthy.

However, the new guidelines apply only to those individuals actually
supported by NRSA awards.  Many postdocs are funded from a principal
investigator's research grant (e.g. R01).  Many institutions pay this
latter group of non-NRSA postdocs according to the NRSA scale.

Now the problem: while the stipends for NRSA budgets will be adjusted
administratively to meet the new guidelines, it is unlikely that this will
be done for all NIH grants which pay postdocs.

1) Does anyone know whether the institutes have adapted in the past to
these kind of changes?

2) Any ideas on how PIs might find the extra funds to cover these increases?

Charlie Hathaway

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