Volume 1, Issue 1
Page 9
Post-doc News
The TAMHSC Post-doctoral Association (PDA) sponsored a visit on November 27, 2012 from Dr. Philip Clifford. Dr. Clifford is the Associate Dean for the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at the Medical College of Wisconsin and also a Professor of Anesthesiology and Physiology. Dr. Clifford is an acknowledge leader in and champion for better mentoring for post-docs and was the 2012 recipient of the National Postdoctoral Association’s 2012 Distinguished Service Award. He spoke on Individual Development Plans.
The PDA recently held its annual election of officers and the new leadership is: Co-presidents:
Dinorah Leyva (Temple – dleyva@medicine.tamhsc.edu) Meg Mittelstadt (Houston – mittelstadt@ibt.tamhsc.edu)
Secretaries:
Suzanne Zeitouni (Temple – Zeitouni@medicine.tamhsc.edu) Ana Cohen (Houston - acohen@ibt.tamhsc.edu)
Treasurer:
Dana Carter (dcarter@medicine.tamhsc.edu)
Special advisors:
Erin van Schaik (vanschaik@medicine.tamhsc.edu) Rose-Anne Meissner (Meissner@medicine.tamhsc.edu) Sanjukta Chakraborty (schakraborty@medicine.tamhsc.edu)
Compliance
Remember, the iRIS portal (https://imedris.tamu.edu/) is now online and can be used to submit and update many of your compliance documents. It has been discovered that many PIs were not receiving notifications because iRIS has their old TAMU email account listed. To be sure you haven’t missed anything you should log in and check the status of your protocols and personal information (log in uses your SSO ID and password). If you have problems please contact the iRIS Support Line at 979.845.4969.
Commercialization
Due to Jim Joyce’s departure from the HSC, Dr. Joe Jilka (Jilka@medicine.tamhsc.edu) is now the chair of the HSC Technology Commercialization Advisory Committee. Due to numerous staff departures, the System Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC) is seriously understaffed and may be slow in handling some projects. They had been under a hiring freeze, but recently received approval to resume hiring so should be back up to full staff levels within six months. If you have issues or problems with commercialization activities please contact the COM Research Office or Dr. Jilka.