Leveraging FACES to Aid Starting in Academia Dr

Leveraging FACES to Aid Starting in Academia Dr. Manu O. Platt March 10, 2009

Born – 6 1 st – 3 rd grade 3 rd-5 th grade 5 th – 12 th grade

Why should you keep trying to get money? • • • Freedom Postdoctoral lab requirements Salary augmentation Quality of life will help you work better! As a minority scientist, there are plenty of funding opportunities • Resume builder – Establishes record of funding – People like to give money to people that have money

Tissue Engineering Systems Biology

What do you do with the money? • Conferences, conferences • Tenure is dependent on who you know so start meeting them now

Tangible purchases • What you purchase on a fellowship, you can take with you • Computer/laptop • Society Memberships – Lifetime if you can • • Wonderful printer for office Business card scanner Digital recording pen SET YOURSELF UP FOR SUCCESS! most institutions

Career Initiation Grant • Unrestricted money – Gem of funding • Startup package still has some restrictions • Money begats money

Platt Lab: Repair, Regeneration and Remodeling STEM CELL MEDIATED TISSUE REMODELING FOR REPAIR AND REGENERATIVE MEDICINE COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF TISSUE REMODELING ACTIVITY Nature Biotechnology 23, 47 - 55 (2005) CARDIOVASCULAR TISSUE REMODELING IN ATHEROSCLEROSIS AND SICKLE CELL DISEASE J. Clin. Invest. 117: 850– 858 (2007).