Panel: Pivoting Funding Strategies in This Current Environment-Foundation Focused discussion
UIC Live Training Course
Starts 8/14/2025
Position: Research Personnel, Faculty
Topic: Career Development
Description:
Description:
In this special panel session, PIs, OVCR representative, and UIC Corporate and Foundation Relations will share their experience with the current state of foundation funding.
Panelists:
Niranjan S. Karnik, MD, PHD
The J. Usha Raj Professor
Director, Institute for Juvenile Research, Department of Psychiatry
Interim Director, AI.Health4All Center, College of Medicine
Co-Director, Center for Clinical & Translational Science, UIC
Co-Director, Institute for Research on Addictions, UIC
Robin J. Mermelstein, PhD
LAS Distinguished Professor and IHRP Director
Clinical & Community and Applied Developmental Psychology
Co-Director, Center for Clinical & Translational Science, UIC
Rebecca Milczarek, Ph.D.
Assistant Director, Office of Research Development
Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of Illinois,Chicago
Elise Carlson
Executive Director of Foundation Relations
UIC Office of the Vice Chancellor for Advancement
Swapna Naidu
Director of Foundation Relations
UIC Office of the Vice Chancellor for Advancement
Moderator:
Kharma C Foucher
Associate Dean of Research
Professor,
College of Applied Health Sciences
Kinesiology and Nutrition
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