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Launching Independent Careers
The FIC teamed up with NCI, NIEHS, and other partners to host the
first Career Fair for Foreign Fellows on the NIH campus. The Fair
addressed a critical need, particularly for fellows from developing
countries, by highlighting opportunities for them to pursue careers
in biomedical and behavioral research in their own countries and
by providing information on skill-building resources available to
them as they navigate the transition after NIH.
 Representatives
of more than 25 embassies, institutions, and international organizations,
including many who traveled from other countries to attend, came
to the fair to present information on career opportunities. FIC
Acting Director Dr. Sharon Hrynkow, who was key in the development
of FIC's GRIP program and the establishment of the NIH Visiting
Fellows Committee, lauded the Career Fair as an excellent and necessary
step in providing information to visiting fellows and an especially
useful resource for those from the developing world who are launching
themselves on independent career paths. The Fair was praised, too,
by Donna Vogel, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the Office of Intramural
Affairs at NCI, who noted "it could only have been done as a partnership—never
before have the ideas, enthusiasm, motivation, and knowledge of
career skill-building and the international scene been brought together
in this way to benefit the Visiting Fellows, who form such a large
and important part of the NIH research enterprise."
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