This was inspiring to read on todays Nobel winner but also a bit of an indictment of the research funding/academic hiring system here in the U.S. We miss out on a lot of brilliant people and their ideas because of how hard it is to get a permanent position.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/08/health/coronavirus-mrna-kariko.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare