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Since the openings in universities are limited, the students say industry offers them a secure job after graduation. Students in Ausubel's, Ptashne's, and Gilbert's labs say that there are both "pluses and minuses" in the new industry, which has just recently spread to the area of agricultural research...
Because of this rule, Gilbert last March announced that he will leave the Faculty in order to devote himself full time to Biogen, a company he founded several years ago. Gilbert had tried to balance his teaching responsibilities with his duties as chief executive officer of the firm, but admitted, "you can't do both at once." Although Rosovsky says the University regretted losing the renowned researcher, he added "[Both he and I] were clear about what our rules are and he could not stay with those rules...
Professors do not believe that cases like Gilbert and Penhoet represent a trend for professors leaving academics to join business. Most professors say they want to maintain a happy medium between both world. And graduate students and post-docs faced with the decision feel they are now presented with more attractive offers than ever before...
Although most of Harvard's graduates students plan to remain in academics, the majority concur with Gilbert's statement that biotechnology is a phase in developing an "industry out of science" Gilbert adds that in biotechnology is a phase in developing an "industry out of science" Gilbert adds that in biology today--as in other fields at other times--industry is taking "science out of what is an ivory lower and showing it has serious application in the world and a serious impact on society...
...informal University policy forbidding professors from serving as operating officers of companies forced Nobel laureate Walter Gilbert to announce his departure this spring. Gilbert had tried to balance his teaching responsibilities with his duties as chief executive officer of Biogen, but admitted 'you can't do both at once...