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Cardiovascular Research Initiative Launched
PHILANTHROPY
George Violin, MD, P&S ’67, has made a gift to P&S that will extend medical education far beyond the medical school’s classrooms and laboratories. Designed to broaden and enrich cultural and scientific horizons, the newly established Violin Family International Travel Award will provide funding for P&S students and faculty to travel and study in Israel to pursue biomedical research, expand existing knowledge, and draw on the significant cultural and scientific opportunities for advanced training that the country offers.
“Israel is a beleaguered center of scientific innovation that produces an enormous amount of research in biotechnology and science,” Dr. Violin says. “Science transcends cultural boundaries; this award will enable students to experience the great wealth of Israel’s sophisticated research, which could be shared by other labs.”
The program will be administered through the Department of Physiology & Cellular Biophysics, under the direction of department chair Andrew R. Marks, MD, professor of physiology and cellular biophysics and Clyde and Helen Wu Professor of Molecular Cardiology (in medicine), in coordination with the Office of Graduate Affairs. Open to all Columbia University PhD students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty members in the basic sciences, the award will cover travel, lodging, conference fees and research expenses. Working with their mentors, applicants will identify appropriate collaborative opportunities or scientific conferences and symposiums to attend during their stay.
Students and faculty who wish to apply are required to submit a statement of purpose identifying the meeting or training opportunity and its relevance to current research, along with a projected budget for the proposed travel and a letter of support to the Office of Graduate Affairs, HHSC 205, or by email: biomedicalsciences@columbia.edu.
