Incoming Faculty Orientation: Missions - Research

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• 00:02So basically,
• 00:04both of us share the
• 00:05job of to being the
• 00:06deputy dean for, for research
• 00:08and scientific affairs.
• 00:10Tony spends most of his
• 00:11time,
• 00:12dedicated to the basic science
• 00:14departments and the research I've
• 00:15done in the basic science
• 00:16departments. I spend most of
• 00:17my time with the clinical
• 00:19departments, and that really includes
• 00:20all the research that's really
• 00:21at the very basic end
• 00:22of things, as well as
• 00:23all the translational and and
• 00:25clinical trial research and and
• 00:27what have you that goes
• 00:28on beyond that. And to
• 00:29be honest, we kind of
• 00:31sit next to each other
• 00:32and we just trade things
• 00:33back and forth. So you're
• 00:34welcome to talk to either
• 00:35of us about any of
• 00:36the issues that may come
• 00:37up.
• 00:39So what do we do
• 00:40in the office of research?
• 00:42Yeah. Essentially, we oversee scientific
• 00:44activities in, again, both the
• 00:46clinical and the basic science
• 00:47departments, as well as all
• 00:49the affiliated centers and programs
• 00:51and institutes across,
• 00:53across the, university that are
• 00:55under the aegis of the
• 00:55medical school or that's shared
• 00:57by the medical school with
• 00:58other,
• 00:59faculty such as the faculty
• 01:01of arts and sciences.
• 01:03We provide guidance and resources
• 01:04for faculty and staff hiring
• 01:06and for retention. We work
• 01:07generally
• 01:08with, department chairs and section
• 01:10chiefs and vice chairs for
• 01:12research and so forth in
• 01:13doing that, but obviously, we
• 01:14also,
• 01:16are are very happy and
• 01:18all the time
• 01:19do get, inquiries from all
• 01:21the individual faculty who may
• 01:23have an issue going on
• 01:24and so forth. We suggest
• 01:25that in general, you first
• 01:27talk to your department and
• 01:29your section, because that's usually
• 01:30the first place to get
• 01:31the information that you need,
• 01:32but we're more than happy,
• 01:34to, to meet with any
• 01:35of you guys, and, and
• 01:37go over things.
• 01:39Probably the biggest headache we
• 01:40have, to be quite honest,
• 01:41is planning space allocation and
• 01:43renovation.
• 01:44We are very fortunate to
• 01:46have grown dramatically
• 01:47at the medical school in
• 01:48terms of our research footprint
• 01:50over the last,
• 01:51literally five to ten years
• 01:52or so.
• 01:53That has strained a bit,
• 01:55the space available.
• 01:57There is a, there is
• 01:58a master plan, and in
• 01:59fact, there's a variety of
• 02:00space that over the course
• 02:02of the next first two
• 02:04years to three years, and
• 02:05then ultimately,
• 02:07out to about,
• 02:08seven, eight years or so,
• 02:10That should, get us into
• 02:12a, into a much, better,
• 02:15place with respect to all
• 02:16of that. But we we
• 02:17will take care of all
• 02:18of those things and make
• 02:19sure that everybody
• 02:20has what they need. You'll
• 02:22you'll find that the campus
• 02:23is connected pretty well across,
• 02:25and people may have mentioned
• 02:26this before, across the second
• 02:28floor in general.
• 02:29So that,
• 02:30if you and now we
• 02:31have bridges
• 02:32to most of the, places
• 02:35in which research is done
• 02:36across the campus. There's bridges
• 02:38across to what's called three
• 02:39hundred George Street. For those
• 02:40of you who haven't been
• 02:41here long enough to to
• 02:42know where everything is, this
• 02:43will eventually become clear. I've
• 02:44been here thirty years. I
• 02:46think I figured it out
• 02:47after I've been here about
• 02:48twenty eight years.
• 02:49Three hundred George Street,
• 02:50there's a new there's a
• 02:52building called one hundred College,
• 02:53which actually is shared between
• 02:55the medical school and,
• 02:57the psychology department and the
• 02:59faculty of arts and sciences
• 03:00and the Wusai Institute, again,
• 03:02which is all connected by
• 03:03bridges. There's a new building
• 03:04across the street from one
• 03:05hundred College called one hundred
• 03:07and one College, very original,
• 03:09which is actually the only
• 03:10building that will well, one
• 03:11of two buildings that aren't
• 03:12connected by bridges,
• 03:14at this point. That one
• 03:15will eventually be connected by
• 03:16bridges, but isn't,
• 03:18but isn't at the moment.
• 03:19And that'll be opening up,
• 03:21this,
• 03:22within the next,
• 03:23twelve to eighteen months for
• 03:25move in of a variety
• 03:27of of programs and what
• 03:28have you. Anyway, the point
• 03:29of all this is just,
• 03:31the space is out there.
• 03:32We will work with you.
• 03:32We will work with your
• 03:33departments. I will mention too,
• 03:35just so you're aware, in
• 03:36case you're not, that the,
• 03:38West Campus is another component
• 03:40in which we do have
• 03:41some medical,
• 03:42school faculty. The West Campus
• 03:44is,
• 03:45theoretically, I think a ten
• 03:46or fifteen minute shuttle ride
• 03:48from here. It depends on
• 03:49the traffic on on interstate
• 03:50ninety five. Big surprise.
• 03:52It's a lovely campus. It
• 03:54used to be the main,
• 03:55North American research campus for
• 03:57the for Bayer,
• 03:59pharmaceutical,
• 04:00and then they pulled back
• 04:01all of their research to
• 04:02Germany and then
• 04:04sold it to Yale, but
• 04:05it was almost the same
• 04:06thing as giving it to
• 04:07Yale given the price that,
• 04:08that Yale paid for it.
• 04:10And that is where the
• 04:11nursing school is. So the
• 04:12health even the health science
• 04:13campus is actually spread in
• 04:15some respects across both of
• 04:16those campuses.
• 04:18We build and oversee technology
• 04:20course and other infrastructure to
• 04:21support research. That's the kind
• 04:23of course that you need
• 04:23both for basic science, cryo
• 04:26EM, things like that, as
• 04:28well as course that you
• 04:29need for, various types of
• 04:31of, of clinic more clinically
• 04:33and clinical trial oriented science,
• 04:35biostatistics, and so forth and
• 04:36so on.
• 04:38And we do spend
• 04:39a portion of our time
• 04:40ensuring compliance with federal, state,
• 04:42local law, and Yale policy.
• 04:44I know everybody loves the
• 04:45concept of compliance, but I
• 04:46will be honest with you.
• 04:47It is designed, of course,
• 04:49to protect the institution, but
• 04:50it's really designed to protect
• 04:52all of you as well,
• 04:53because we really don't we
• 04:55think most of you don't
• 04:56look really great in orange,
• 04:57and we don't want you
• 04:58marching off in orange jumpsuits,
• 05:00to various institutions,
• 05:02that are out there that
• 05:03aren't Yale.
• 05:04What else do we do?
• 05:05Nucleate maintain relationships with partners
• 05:07across the university, government, foundations,
• 05:09industry. That's obviously a very
• 05:10important thing as as NIH,
• 05:13the amount of funding that
• 05:14NIH gives to get the
• 05:15work done seems to be
• 05:17decreasing year by year,
• 05:19certainly in real dollars, and
• 05:20so it becomes more and
• 05:21more important to build research
• 05:23on philanthropy, on foundations, on
• 05:25government relationships, and in particular,
• 05:27alliances with industry as well.
• 05:29We have a number of
• 05:30those out there,
• 05:31and we work on making
• 05:33those smooth and making that,
• 05:34that type of relationship smooth.
• 05:37We have a great interest
• 05:38in trying to make sure
• 05:39that that, we don't end
• 05:41up with a situation where
• 05:42rich departments get more than
• 05:43poor departments or something like
• 05:44that, as you can imagine,
• 05:46can happen in certain settings,
• 05:48and that's really to ensure
• 05:49equity and resource allocation.
• 05:51We partner, and and this
• 05:53afternoon there'll be a session
• 05:54that a number of you
• 05:55have signed up for on
• 05:56on research,
• 05:58and you'll hear more from
• 05:59Keith Choate about,
• 06:01about what goes on in
• 06:02terms of professional development and
• 06:03so forth,
• 06:05and equity inclusion and all
• 06:06of those kinds of things,
• 06:07but really to try to
• 06:08make your career, life cycle
• 06:10in terms of your research
• 06:11and scholarly,
• 06:13focus to work, work well
• 06:15for you.
• 06:16We work with developmentaries,
• 06:18philanthropic donations as well, and
• 06:20also work with the office
• 06:21of communications to enhance the
• 06:23profile
• 06:23of research and and, to
• 06:25really advertise, if you will,
• 06:27so that you can get,
• 06:28really,
• 06:30terrific,
• 06:32graduate students, postdocs, etcetera, etcetera,
• 06:34as time goes on in
• 06:35terms of, of supporting your
• 06:37research program that's out there.
• 06:40I should well, I'll come
• 06:41back to that in a
• 06:41minute. We oversee funding policy,
• 06:44dah, dah, dah. We work
• 06:45with, very closely with the
• 06:47graduate school and jointly work
• 06:49on the PhD programs in
• 06:51the biological and biomedical sciences,
• 06:54including things that actually are
• 06:56relatively unique like the investigative
• 06:57medicine program,
• 06:59which actually takes people that
• 07:00have an MD
• 07:01and then usually over about
• 07:03a three year period three
• 07:04year period of time gets
• 07:05them a PhD,
• 07:06can be in in,
• 07:08health care research types of,
• 07:10types of activities, but also
• 07:12can be all the way
• 07:12back at at,
• 07:14at fish and flies and
• 07:15all those kinds of, those
• 07:16kinds of things.
• 07:18Similarly,
• 07:19we look at faculty appointments
• 07:21to the graduate school and
• 07:22try to work and expedite
• 07:23that. For the basic science
• 07:25departments,
• 07:26you basically automatically get an
• 07:27appointment in the graduate school.
• 07:29For the clinical departments,
• 07:31you can you get a,
• 07:33assignment to the graduate school
• 07:35either through having a secondary
• 07:36appointment in one of the
• 07:37basic science departments
• 07:38or through a separate process
• 07:40which gets you a direct
• 07:41admission to the graduate school,
• 07:42which really has been in
• 07:43existence the last the latter
• 07:45has been in existence probably
• 07:46the last three, four years
• 07:47maybe, and it's been working
• 07:49very well, I think.
• 07:50We have to coordinate clinical
• 07:52research infrastructure across,
• 07:54the cancer center, the so
• 07:55called YCCI, the Yale Center
• 07:56for Clinical Investigation,
• 07:59the departments, and importantly, Yale
• 08:00New Haven Health System. You
• 08:02heard a lot about that
• 08:03from Peg and,
• 08:04Pam this morning in terms
• 08:05of the health system. We
• 08:06have a major effort to
• 08:08to to be able to
• 08:09make it easier to roll
• 08:11out translational clinical research, not
• 08:13just across the main campus
• 08:15here
• 08:16at the Yale New Haven,
• 08:18the Yale New Haven Hospital,
• 08:20but also across all of
• 08:21the area that the health
• 08:22system,
• 08:23covers.
• 08:25Working on things which we
• 08:26expect any day now, we
• 08:28will have a single IRB
• 08:29across the entire health system,
• 08:30which hasn't been true in
• 08:31the past, and a variety
• 08:32of efforts like that. And
• 08:34finally, we do all the
• 08:35usual kind of stuff like
• 08:36writing letters of support for
• 08:37grants and what have you.
• 08:38Tony.
• 08:43You know, from watching the
• 08:44DNC the last couple nights,
• 08:45I thought there's gonna be
• 08:46walk up music, so,
• 08:48a little off foot.
• 08:51Okay. So so the key
• 08:52question for you, right, is
• 08:53how do we help new
• 08:54faculty? So,
• 08:56first and foremost, I think
• 08:57Brian alluded to this. We
• 08:58provide space,
• 09:00and in concert with your
• 09:01department leadership, we provide, startup
• 09:04funds.
• 09:05You'll hear more this afternoon
• 09:07about an excellent lab management
• 09:09course,
• 09:10that that we offer,
• 09:11and Keith will tell you
• 09:13more about that, I think,
• 09:13in the breakout session this
• 09:14afternoon. We really encourage you
• 09:16to take that.
• 09:17The beautiful thing about being
• 09:19new to Yale and new,
• 09:21newly independent for many of
• 09:22you,
• 09:23is you are eligible for
• 09:25every beauty prize that rewards
• 09:27being new and young and
• 09:29energetic in science. And so
• 09:31we do whatever we can,
• 09:33both through foundation grants
• 09:35and through,
• 09:37identifying,
• 09:38you know, donors or or
• 09:40foundations that might wanna support
• 09:41your work. So we wanna
• 09:43hear about what you're excited
• 09:44about and, and be able
• 09:46to facilitate that. So don't
• 09:47hesitate to to reach out
• 09:49to to tell us what
• 09:50you're doing, so we can
• 09:51help.
• 09:52And that and some of
• 09:53those foundation grants,
• 09:55they'll only allow, you know,
• 09:57limited number of submissions. And
• 09:59so the way we handle
• 10:00that,
• 10:01is to, there there's a
• 10:03a central committee built of
• 10:05a blue ribbon panel,
• 10:07that that,
• 10:08we try to spread it
• 10:09around. Try to spread opportunities
• 10:10around.
• 10:11Brian, had alluded to the
• 10:13fact that we oversee the
• 10:14central research course, but what
• 10:16we're also interested in is
• 10:18getting ahead of the game.
• 10:18And so,
• 10:20there may be,
• 10:23what we call bleeding edge
• 10:25technology. So these are technologies
• 10:26that we know we're gonna
• 10:27need,
• 10:29and and there might even
• 10:30be competition in the field
• 10:32for
• 10:33platforms that that mediate these,
• 10:35and we don't know which
• 10:37one's gonna win. But we
• 10:38wanna hear about them, and
• 10:39we want we have resources
• 10:40here at Yale to pilot
• 10:41them, to figure out how
• 10:43we might democratize that technology,
• 10:46for your use. Okay? So
• 10:47if if you think there's
• 10:48something, it doesn't exist here,
• 10:50and and and you think
• 10:51the two of us, don't
• 10:53know about it, please speak
• 10:54up. We wanna know that.
• 10:56We also, have,
• 10:58and and I think this
• 10:59will probably come online into
• 11:01your consciousness in the years
• 11:02to come,
• 11:03an office of team science
• 11:05whose mission is to encourage,
• 11:08interdisciplinary
• 11:10large group science. Okay? And
• 11:12so if you and and
• 11:13a group have an idea
• 11:15for something and you you
• 11:16have a clear eyed view
• 11:17of how this might become
• 11:19self sustainable in the long
• 11:21term,
• 11:22again, please let us know.
• 11:24We actually have,
• 11:26some means to, support pilot
• 11:29funding for those. So let's
• 11:30say your group, you wanna
• 11:31apply for a a U
• 11:33grant in in eighteen months
• 11:35and and you really need
• 11:36to stitch it together and
• 11:37have preliminary data,
• 11:39that's what we're here for.
• 11:40Okay? And that's that's the
• 11:42intention there.
• 11:43Okay.
• 11:45I remember sitting there twenty,
• 11:48I
• 11:49I I hope I have
• 11:50this right, twenty six years
• 11:51ago,
• 11:52and and people coming to
• 11:54you and and having general
• 11:55advice. And I I think
• 11:56some of this has stood
• 11:57the the the test of
• 11:58time.
• 12:00The number one thing to
• 12:01keep in mind is we're
• 12:02excited that you're here, and
• 12:05there are many colleagues, some
• 12:06of whom you haven't even
• 12:07met yet, who are incredibly
• 12:08excited that you're here. Okay?
• 12:11So find mentors and sponsors
• 12:12that can help you navigate.
• 12:13We'll we'll we have mechanisms
• 12:15to facilitate that in a
• 12:16formal sense, but what I
• 12:18will tell you is, you
• 12:19know, a mentor isn't necessarily
• 12:21someone with gray hair and,
• 12:24who's been around the block,
• 12:25you know,
• 12:27fifty times.
• 12:28I found when I came
• 12:29here,
• 12:30mentors were just people that
• 12:31could give me good advice,
• 12:32who had had experience in
• 12:34things that I hadn't experienced
• 12:35yet and could share that
• 12:36experience. So in truth, some
• 12:38of my best mentors
• 12:39were other assistant professors who
• 12:41had only been here two
• 12:42or three years longer than
• 12:43I have. Okay?
• 12:45So don't discount that collective
• 12:47wisdom,
• 12:48and don't be afraid to
• 12:49ask,
• 12:50and and you'll get advice,
• 12:52and and I think there
• 12:54are are plenty of people
• 12:55to help you filter that.
• 12:57I think Brian alluded to
• 12:59this. For almost any space
• 13:00or resource issue,
• 13:02it's always a good idea
• 13:03to talk to your department
• 13:04leadership first, and that is
• 13:06because, you know, even though
• 13:07I think we have a
• 13:08global overview of resources and
• 13:10space, a lot of that
• 13:11authority is delegated locally. And
• 13:13so,
• 13:14it's really, really critical.
• 13:16We're gonna check with them
• 13:17anyway,
• 13:18to see what's available in
• 13:19the department, so that's always
• 13:20the best place to start.
• 13:22And then, you know, if
• 13:23you get the green light,
• 13:24certainly come to us. You
• 13:25know.
• 13:27Okay. There will be many,
• 13:29many opportunities for you to
• 13:31get out there,
• 13:32and and attend and present
• 13:34and engage and collaborate, and,
• 13:36you know, the single best
• 13:37thing you can do is
• 13:39talk about your work
• 13:40in front of people who
• 13:41may hear, who may not
• 13:42have heard of it. And
• 13:43I I can think of,
• 13:46I'll give you one example,
• 13:47Charlie Greer, who's a neuroscientist
• 13:49here who I
• 13:51only met because I happened
• 13:52to give a research progress,
• 13:53and Charlie and I probably
• 13:55have ten papers together. We've
• 13:56had grants together. He's probably
• 13:58one of my best friends
• 13:59on campus, and it only
• 14:00came about because of that.
• 14:01And I could give you
• 14:03another twenty examples of that.
• 14:06There's all kinds of
• 14:08research and progress
• 14:10series,
• 14:11there are
• 14:14focus groups, there
• 14:17are grand rounds opportunities.
• 14:19So, you know, if you
• 14:20don't know, ask senior people
• 14:22in your department, how can
• 14:23I get out there and
• 14:24how can I, tell my
• 14:25story?
• 14:27The other thing about that
• 14:28is,
• 14:30our trainees are drawn to
• 14:32the shiny new object, and
• 14:33you you are the shiny
• 14:34new objects, and and they
• 14:35will find you, and they
• 14:36will wanna work with you.
• 14:37Because by definition, being hired
• 14:39by Yale means that you
• 14:41are either currently or or
• 14:43emerging as a world leader
• 14:45in your field. That's incredibly
• 14:47attractive to a young person
• 14:48to to to to find
• 14:50somebody like that to work
• 14:51with.
• 14:52And so just being, you
• 14:53know, just being present sometimes
• 14:55and opportunities to intersect.
• 14:59If your, if if your
• 15:00primary mission here is is
• 15:02laboratory research,
• 15:05You know, what I will
• 15:06say is probably for the
• 15:08first few years,
• 15:09you may be the best
• 15:10postdoc you ever get.
• 15:12Okay?
• 15:13And so
• 15:15if you can carve out
• 15:16time to drive projects or
• 15:18even even, you know, I
• 15:20know in in the early
• 15:21days for me, just getting
• 15:22a project to the point
• 15:23where I could sell it
• 15:24to somebody in lab and
• 15:25get them to take it
• 15:26up. Sometimes just reducing that
• 15:28activation energy can make a
• 15:30big difference. So,
• 15:32consider that. And and I
• 15:33know, you know, I know
• 15:34there's this this, I'm, you
• 15:35know, I'm the boss now.
• 15:36I'm gonna sit and type
• 15:37all day. And and the
• 15:39reality is that gets pretty
• 15:40boring pretty fast. And if
• 15:42you do carve out the
• 15:42day,
• 15:44I always found the joy
• 15:45I found much more joy
• 15:46in the cold room,
• 15:48than I did sitting in
• 15:49my office at a at
• 15:50a desk. And anybody knows
• 15:51I can't be in a
• 15:52room that's over seventy five
• 15:54degrees without
• 15:55intolerance.
• 15:57You know, lastly,
• 15:58I wish for you
• 16:00the same joy I found
• 16:01in my career here, and
• 16:03sometimes you have to tell
• 16:05yourself that you're having fun,
• 16:06you know, I I it's
• 16:07not all going to be
• 16:08not every moment is going
• 16:10to be sheer ecstasy, and
• 16:11I'm sure you you recognize
• 16:12that,
• 16:14But I I think what
• 16:15you'll find is that, increasingly,
• 16:17even probably some of the
• 16:19aspects of the job,
• 16:21that that you didn't always
• 16:23enjoy, you will enjoy. And
• 16:24I I know, I'm not
• 16:26a I'm not a psychologist.
• 16:28I I my wife tells
• 16:29me this whole time.
• 16:31I'm not a psychologist and
• 16:32and but, you know, I've
• 16:34heard and I think this
• 16:35resonates with me that people
• 16:36are happiest when they're doing
• 16:37things right challenging things right
• 16:39at the edge of their
• 16:40ability,
• 16:42and I found that to
• 16:43be true myself. And so,
• 16:44you know, it's it's really
• 16:46a joy to be able
• 16:46to do what we do
• 16:47for a living, and all
• 16:49of the administrative,
• 16:51and and other activities that
• 16:53you have to
• 16:55do to make it happen
• 16:56are really a small price
• 16:57to pay for that. Okay?
• 16:58So so do find joy.
• 17:00Do do take the time,
• 17:02you know, to to pat
• 17:03yourself on the back, and
• 17:04say, gosh, I I can't
• 17:06believe,
• 17:07I I I work here,
• 17:08and I can't believe I
• 17:09have this role. So thanks.
• 17:10Welcome to Yale. I look
• 17:11forward to talking to you
• 17:13more, this afternoon.