> Mark Murcko He's on the admin / capital side of the equation and will do fine, I'm sure. > paid competitively That's not an endorsement and hardly an excus

> Mark Murcko He's on the admin / capital side of the equation and will do fine, I'm sure. > paid competitively That's not an endorsement and hardly an excuse. Unless things have changed dramatically in the last year or two, pay for computational / structural biologists is 1/2 to 1/3 of what a person with the same skills gets for helping build Uber for Poodles, which is in turn 1/2 to 1/3 of what a person with the same skills gets at AppleGooFaceZon or on Wall St. The field, like many scientific fields, runs on passion, naivete, and green cards, and is quite abusive to the people doing the actual work, even though it showers adjacent concerns with money. If science didn't suffer from such a severe value capture problem, scientists could win a seat at the table, but it does, so practicing scientists get shut out and the money goes instead to capital/risk, showmen (often "graduated" scientists themselves), lawyers, etc.