ATVB Early Career Committee

• Gordon Research Conferences
  Gordon Research Conferences includes presentations of emerging science, typically in an informal atmosphere for close collegial discussions and cooperation.
  
  
• SVS Vascular Research Initiatives Conference
  Vascular Research Initiatives Conference (VRIC) is the annual basic science meeting of the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) emphasizing translational research into peripheral vascular disease and the research of junior vascular biologists. Held immediately before the Vascular Discovery: From Genes to Medicine Scientific Sessions.
  
  
• North American Vascular Biology Organization (NAVBO)
  • Vasculata – A useful detailed overview of current topics in vascular biology for young investigators. Includes an optional hands-on workshop in experimental techniques of value to the vascular researcher.
  • Vascular Biology – A meeting featuring two NAVBO Workshops and special sessions on therapeutics, resolution inflammation and signaling in inflammation.
    
    
• Keystone Conferences
  Scientific conferences held in relatively informal locales to optimize information exchange and promote collaborative interactions. A subset of these each year is dedicated to cardiovascular diseases.

• Succeeding at Every Stage: Insights from the Early Career Committee
  This session focused on how to achieve success in your post-doctoral fellowship, how to successfully acquire transition grants, and keys to successfully negotiating your first independent position as a scientist or physician-scientist. Each topic was led by ECC members that have been highly successful in the subject area.
  
  
• Transitioning to laboratory leadership (PPT) Keynote speech given by Kathy Barker, PhD
  Kathy Barker completed her PhD work in Microbiology at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center and her postdoc at Rockefeller University in the Laboratory of Viral Oncology with Saburo Hanafusa.

Kathy was an assistant professor at Rockefeller in the Laboratory of Cell Physiology and Immunology when she left the lab to write At the Bench: A Laboratory Navigator for Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, which sought to demystify the culture of the laboratory, so newcomers regardless of background could feel comfortable in asking questions and performing experiments. Many problems in the lab are were caused not by people in the lab, however, but by the principal investigator (PI). While new PIs have excellent training developing their research goals and technical skills, new PIs often lack the required communication and organizational skills they need to effectively run a research program. Kathy's latest book, At the Helm: Leading your Lab, addresses the so-called "soft skills" that are critical to research and professional success.

• Activism and Advocacy in Science (PPT) for ATVB Mentor of Women Award Luncheon
  
  
• Grant Presentation: Road to Independence (PPT)
  
  
• NIH Grants for Early Career Investigators (PPT)
  
  
• How to Get Your Work Published in the Best Journals (PPT)
  
  
• Grants and Grant Writing
  Learn about the current state of affairs for grants and grant writing with William P Fay, MD, FAHA. Dr Fay’s lab is at the University of Missouri, Columbia, where he is director of the Division of Cardiology and professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and the Department of Medical Physiology and Pharmacology.
  
  
• How to Get Published in Good Journals
  Ushma S Neill, PhD, will discuss how to get published in good journals. Dr Neill has been the executive editor of the Journal of Clinical Investigation since 2003. Prior to that, she was an editor at Nature Medicine.
  
  
• Crafting a Competitive Career Development Proposal
  With emphasis on career development and/or transition awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other funders, this session is designed to provide participants with the information and tools needed to prepare a competitive K-type series proposal. Topics will include Know Your Funder and the K Opportunities, Understanding the Review Criteria for K Awards, the Anatomy of an Application and tips on fitting development of a proposal into an already busy schedule (15 Steps to the Payline). An opportunity to hear the success stories from recipients of NIH K Awards will be a dynamic feature of this session. This session was led by Robert J. Milner, PhD, Associate Vice Provost for Professional Development, University of Massachusetts Medical School and Joan M. Lakoski, PhD, Associate Vice Chancellor for Science Education Outreach, University of Pittsburgh, Health Sciences.
  
  
• Inside Story on Decision-Making by an NIH Study Section Panel
  To prepare a competitive proposal, it is critical to understand your audience — the study section panel. Learn what happens after you submit your application for a K or other NIH award by viewing a “live” mock study section panel at work. The session will include a debriefing on the dynamics of the review process so that participants will be better informed on how to craft an application that garners favorable reviews from a review panel. This session was led by Robert J. Milner, PhD, Associate Vice Provost for Professional Development, University of Massachusetts Medical School and Joan M. Lakoski, PhD, Associate Vice Chancellor for Science Education Outreach, University of Pittsburgh, Health Sciences.
  
  • Finding, Funding and Succeeding in Your Postdoctoral Fellowship
    Phil Owens, PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Katey Rayner, PhD, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, New York, Rong Huang, PhD, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
  • Tips for Successfully Acquiring Transition Grants: K08, K99/R00, SDG
    Jordan Miller, PhD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, Hyung Chun, MD, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
  • Negotiating a Start-up Package as a Career Scientist
    Daisy Sahoo, PhD, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Wayne Orr, PhD, LSU Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, Louisiana.
  • Negotiating a Start-up Package as a Physician-Scientist
     Nick Leeper, MD, Stanford University, Stanford, California, Aloke Finn, MD, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia.