Accountability is also important, and the program must demonstrate productivity resulting from the institution’s investment. The Strategic Hiring Initiative is less than three years old and early results demonstrate that it is returning value on the investment. Since its implementation in March 2016, we have recruited twelve Strategic Hiring Initiative candidates and seven related strategic recruits, for a total of nineteen key strategic hires. These individuals brought $20.9 million in their first year and $60.4 million over five years. The effect of these hires is not limited to the funding they bring. As noted above, they are making an impact through collaborations across departments and across schools. For example, two Strategic Hiring Initiative hires in transplant and adaptive cell therapy (Oberholzer, Lum) are part of a successful Strategic Investment Fund application to treat and cure Type 1 diabetes. Two Strategic Hiring Initiative hires in Endocrinology (A. Basu and R. Basu) have joined the Strategic Investment Fund effort and have begun educational and research collaborations with the Cardiovascular Research Center and the Data Science Intitute. This larger diabetes group is mounting an effort to submit 10 multi-Principal Investigator grants in response to a special NIH opportunity (RFA), which involves four School of Medicine departments and two School of Engineering and Applied Science departments. Dr. Sean Moore, a Strategic Hiring Initiative hire in Pediatrics, is working with colleagues in Medicine, the Institute for Global Health and Diseases, and the Gates Foundation to develop a research facility and projects to study the influence of the microbiome on numerous diseases. Strategic Hiring Initiative hire Dr. Francine is part of a multiple Principal Investigator consortium between the School of Medicine, College of Arts and Sciences, and Signature Sciences that is proposing to do research on the human epigenome in response to environmental toxins. UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
Accountability is also important, and the program must demonstrate productivity resulting from the institution’s investment. The Strategic Hiring Initiative is less than three years old and early results demonstrate that it is returning value on the investment. Since its implementation in March 2016, we have recruited twelve Strategic Hiring Initiative candidates and seven related strategic recruits, for a total of nineteen key strategic hires. These individuals brought $20.9 million in their first year and $60.4 million over five years. The effect of these hires is not limited to the funding they bring. As noted above, they are making an impact through collaborations across departments and across schools. For example, two Strategic Hiring Initiative hires in transplant and adaptive cell therapy (Oberholzer, Lum) are part of a successful Strategic Investment Fund application to treat and cure Type 1 diabetes. Two Strategic Hiring Initiative hires in Endocrinology (A. Basu and R. Basu) have joined the Strategic Investment Fund effort and have begun educational and research collaborations with the Cardiovascular Research Center and the Data Science Intitute. This larger diabetes group is mounting an effort to submit 10 multi-Principal Investigator grants in response to a special NIH opportunity (RFA), which involves four School of Medicine departments and two School of Engineering and Applied Science departments. Dr. Sean Moore, a Strategic Hiring Initiative hire in Pediatrics, is working with colleagues in Medicine, the Institute for Global Health and Diseases, and the Gates Foundation to develop a research facility and projects to study the influence of the microbiome on numerous diseases. Strategic Hiring Initiative hire Dr. Francine is part of a multiple Principal Investigator consortium between the School of Medicine, College of Arts and Sciences, and Signature Sciences that is proposing to do research on the human epigenome in response to environmental toxins. UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
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