Sessions
Federal Funding Agencies, Funding Mechanisms, and Review Processes
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM Wed
Developing a Competitive NIH Research Grant or Cooperative Agreement Application; NIH Grant ID System
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM Wed
NIH Career Development (K) Grant Applications for the Support of Junior Faculty; Best Practices for Competitive NIH Grant Applications: Research Grants and Career Development Awards
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM Wed
Identifying Sources of Extramural Funding
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM Wed
Jaime S. Rubin PhD is Vice Chair for Investigator Development and Professor of Medical Sciences in Columbia University's Department of Medicine. Over the past few years, the Department of Medicine's national ranking of NIH funding rose from 16th to 2nd place. She founded and continues to direct the graduate level course "Funding and Grantsmanship for Research and Career Development Activities" (
http://grantscourse.columbia.edu/). This course, which is attended by junior faculty and other new investigators, post-doctoral scientists, clinical fellows, and students from across the University's academic programs, provides attendees with a detailed understanding of extramural support available for research and career development activities as well as the grant application submission and review processes. She has given related invited presentations at national conferences and at peer institutions, as well as at less research-intensive universities and colleges working towards increasing their extramural research funding.
She is also committed to increasing the diversity of the scientific research workforce and related efforts include providing career development programming for NIH’s “National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN) for a Diverse Biomedical Workforce“, a component of the Diversity Program Consortium (DPC), a trans-NIH multi-institutional effort whose overarching goal "is to develop, implement, assess, and disseminate innovative and effective approaches to engaging, training, and mentoring students; enhancing faculty development; and strengthening institutional research training infrastructure to enhance the participation and persistence of individuals from underrepresented backgrounds in biomedical research careers." Recordings of her “Funding and Grantsmanship” webinars have been posted to the NRMN’s YouTube channel (
https://lnkd.in/duRtqkW).
She received a BS in physics sigma pi sigma from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (New York, NY) and then received the MSc and PhD degrees from the Ontario Cancer Institute/University of Toronto (Canada). Her PhD thesis, published in the journal, Nature, described the first molecular identification and characterization of a human DNA repair gene. 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 served as the founding Associate Program Director and Administrative Director of the Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship, including developing an International Fellowship in Global Heath Research which served as a national model. Other career development activities include serving as Associate Director for Career Development on a number of NIH-funded pre-doctoral, post-doctoral, and junior faculty training grants, as well as an Advisory Board member of TRANSFORM (TRaining And Nurturing Scientists FOr Research that is Multidisciplinary), the education and career development arm of Columbia's Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA).