Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)

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Leveraging FACES to Aid Starting in Academia
Dr. Manu O. Platt
March 10, 2009
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Born 6
1st 3rd grade
3rd-5th grade
5th 12th grade
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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

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Tissue Engineering
Systems Biology
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What do you do with the money?

• Conferences, conferences, conferences
• Tenure is dependent on who you know so start
  meeting them now

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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

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Career Initiation Grant

• Unrestricted money Gem of funding
• Startup package still has some restrictions
• Money begats money

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Platt Lab Repair, Regeneration and Remodeling
COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF TISSUE REMODELING
ACTIVITY
STEM CELL MEDIATED TISSUE REMODELING FOR REPAIR
AND REGENERATIVE MEDICINE
CARDIOVASCULAR TISSUE REMODELING IN
ATHEROSCLEROSIS AND SICKLE CELL DISEASE
J. Clin. Invest. 117850858 (2007).