The Irving Institute DNMR has as its role to reach for the ’gold ring’ of the CTSA and develop ways to overcome the barriers that impede the movement of new knowledge from the bench to the bedside to the community. To accomplish this, the DNMR has brought together a multidisciplinary team of senior CUMC faculty and a group of young but accomplished translational scientists. The latter group, designated as Irving Fellows, is provided with financial support - which ultimately translates into time - to enable them to take creative risks in expanding their own investigative work while taking a lead role in changing the culture of research at CUMC.
The Irving Fellows meet regularly with DNMR faculty to further develop their skills as leaders in team science and continue to expand their familiarity with novel methodologies/technologies and diverse disciplines. Under the leadership of Henry Ginsberg (PI) and Harold A. Pincus (Associate Director) these 'change agents' have been charged with fueling the academic mission of the Irving Institute. Among the activities planned for the Fellows are:
- Developing a mentoring program for K - grant awardees across the CUMC campus. While all K - grant awardees have primary, and often secondary, mentors the DNMR - based program will offer broad - based mentoring and career development assistance. They will accomplish this aim in close collaboration with our TRANSFORM educational program and the resources available there.
- Assisting in the development of a campus - wide seminar series that will review ongoing research in major health problems and serve as a forum for the development of new approaches to those problems.
- Working in teams to review research on major health problems at CUMC and produce "white papers" offering potential new, multi - and interdisciplinary approaches to that research. These new approaches will include bringing scientists together for novel collaborations and identifying novel technologies that would assist investigators working on specific problems.
- Reviewing applications for the various funding opportunities provided by the CTSA thereby providing the Fellows with "study section" experience.
The Irving Institute Fellows are:
Emilia Bagiella, PhD
Associate Professor of Clinical Biostatistics
Jonathan Barasch, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine and Anatomy and Cell Biology
Bernadette Capilli, DNSc
Assistant Professor of Nursing
Thomas Diacovo, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Pathology
Dympna Gallagher, EdD
Associate Professor of Nutritional Medicine
Petra Kaufmann, MD, MS
Irving Assistant Professor of Neurology
Eliza Konofagou, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology
Steven O. Marx, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology
Chunhua Weng, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics
The Irving Institute faculty include:
Anissa Abi - Dargham, MD
Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Radiology
Elaine Larson, BSN, PhD
Professor of Epidemiology
Associate Dean for Research, School of Nursing
Panos Papapanou, DDS, PhD
Professor of Dentistry
Ann Marie Schmidt, MD
Professor of Surgery
