Grantsmanship for Graduate Students and Postdocs

Speakers

Speaker

Jaime S. Rubin, PhD

Columbia University

Jaime S. Rubin, PhD, received a BS in physics sigma pi sigma in 1977 from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (New York, NY). She then received the MSc and PhD degrees from the Ontario Cancer Institute/University of Toronto in 1980 and 1984, respectively. Her Ph.D. thesis, published in the journal, Nature, described the first molecular identification and characterization of a human DNA repair gene. Since 1985, she has held a number of senior level positions at Columbia University's Medical Center, including Acting Associate Dean for Graduate Affairs, having served as the founding Director of the Office of Graduate Affairs, and Acting Associate Vice President/Acting Associate Dean for Research Administration, having served as one of the founders of the Office of Research Administration. She is currently the Director for Research Development in the Department of Medicine. All of these positions have allowed for the teaching and mentoring of junior investigators, including medical, public health, nursing, and graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and assistant professors. She founded and continues to teach the graduate level course "Funding and Grantsmanship for Research and Career Development Activities” in 1996 and served as the Associate Program Director for the Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship Program, having helped initiate this successful program at Columbia in 2000. She started and continues to co-direct the Medical Center's course on "Responsible Conduct of Research and Related Policy Issues.” Other roles include serving as Associate Director for Career Development on a number of NIH-funded pre-doctoral and postdoctoral training grants as well as an advisory board member of Columbia’s Patient-Oriented Research (POR) Master of Science Program and CTSA (Education).

Panelists

Somdeb Mitra, PhD

Post-Doctoral Fellow
Columbia University
Fellowship: Susan G. Komen Foundation

Bhama Ramkhelawon, PhD

Post-Doctoral Fellow
NYU School of Medicine
Fellowship: American Heart Association

Jessica Rios

Graduate Student
Gerstner Sloan Kettering
Fellowship: National Institutes of Health

Aakanksha Singhvi, PhD

Post-Doctoral Fellow
Rockefeller University
Fellowship: American Cancer Society

Jieling Zhu

Graduate Student
Columbia University
Fellowship: National Science Foundation