Executive director of US postdoctoral association steps down.
Cathee Johnson Phillips, executive director of the US National Postdoctoral Association (NPA) in Washington DC, will step down on 30 April. The NPA's board of directors has launched a nationwide search and hopes to hire a new leader before she leaves. Johnson Phillips joined the NPA — which represents some 2,700 US and Canadian postdocs — in September 2008. She has helped to advocate for stipend increases and benefits for postdocs funded by the US National Institutes of Health; launch a best-practices certification programme for institutions; and facilitate the creation of postdoctoral offices and associations at US universities. She aims to maintain a postdoc-advocacy role but has no specific plans yet.
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Postdoc leader sought. Nature 492, 459 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nj7429-459d
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nj7429-459d