Dr. Manu O. PlattMarch 10, 2009

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

Nature Biotechnology  23, 47 - 55 (2005)

Platt Lab: Repair, Regeneration and RemodelingSTEM CELL MEDIATED TISSUE REMODELING FOR REPAIR AND REGENERATIVE MEDICINE

COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF TISSUE REMODELING ACTIVITY

CARDIOVASCULAR TISSUE REMODELING IN ATHEROSCLEROSIS AND SICKLE CELL

DISEASE

J. Clin. Invest. 117:850–858 (2007).