5.0
Mar 25, 2014
Former employee, more than 1 year
Bethesda, MD
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook
Pros
The NIH is a world-class center for research in Bethesda, Maryland. The people who are PIs are NIH are frequently people who were doing top, top work at their previous institutions, and then get offered positions at NIH which they take because of the more secure funding. Despite this, it can be harder to maintain a very very large lab at NIH, but changes in lab size are much more graded than in academia outside NIH.
Cons
As in all scientific research, your work-life balance will suffer. If you're working at NIH outside of R&D though, your life is probably fine.