Jaime S. Rubin

Jaime S. Rubin, Ph.D., received a B.S. in physics sigma pi sigma in 1977 from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. She then received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Ontario Cancer Institute/University of Toronto in 1980 and 1984, respectively. Her Ph.D. thesis, published in the journal, Nature, described the first molecular identification and characterization of a human DNA repair gene.

Since 1985, she has held a number of senior level positions at Columbia University's Medical Center, including Acting Associate Dean for Graduate Affairs and Acting Associate Vice President/Acting Associate Dean for Research Administration. She is currently the Director for Research Development in the Department of Medicine and holds a faculty position in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Center for Radiological Research. All of these positions have allowed for the teaching and mentoring of junior investigators, including medical and graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and assistant professors. She is the founding Director for the graduate-level course "Funding for Research Activities: Basic Issues in Obtaining Support” which she continues to teach. She serves as the Associate Program Director of the Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship Program, having helped found the program at Columbia. Other career development roles include serving as Associate Director for Career Development on a number of NIH-funded pre-doctoral and postdoctoral training grants as well as an advisory board member of Columbia’s Patient Oriented Research Master of Science Program.

She initiated and continues to direct the Medical Center's course on "Responsible Conduct of Research and Related Policy Issues”, lecturing on misconduct in research as well as issues concerning publication and authorship. Previously, she directed the Medical Center’s course "Protection of Human Research Participants in Biomedical and Behavioral Research.”