Grant Administration Workshop

Rutgers AAUP-AFT Grant Administration Workshop
April 20th, 2006

This Event was co-sponsored by the New Jersey Center for Biomaterials

11:40 Presentation by Silvina Tomassone Getting Started with Grants: “An Assistant Professor’s Perspective”

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Adjunct Professor Biomedical Engineering
She is a Co-PI and Co-Director NSF IGERT Program in NanoPharmaceutical Engineering and part of the Pharmaceutical Engineering Research Center (ERC) proposal to NSF. She is also a recipient of an NSF sole-investigator award, a PI in a NSF NER grant and a co-PI in three NSF NIRT awards. Her work has also been funded by grants from Merck, Pfizer, and J&J, including a Pfizer Young Investigator Award.

12:10 Presentation by Joachim Kohn (Professor Kohn's Presentation will be posted soon)

Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry
He has served as Director of the New Jersey Center for Biomaterials since its establishment in 1997. He is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and of the International Union of Societies for Biomaterials Science and Engineering (IUSBSE). He is the principal investigator of several leading federally-funded R&D programs: NIH-funded postdoctoral training program in Tissue Engineering, NSF-funded Program on Innovation Partnerships designed to explore new models of academia-industry interactions, NIH funded National Resource for Polymeric Biomaterials (RESBIO), and the DoD-funded Center for Military Biomaterials Research (CeMBR).

1:00 Presentation by Michael Pazzani Succeeding at Research Funding

Vice President for Research and Graduate & Professional Education and former Division Director at the National Science Foundation.

1:30 Presentation by Mary Ellen O'Brien An Overview of the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs

Assistant Director of Grant and Contract Administration of the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs.

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