 |
|
Eric Cottington Vice President, Research Resources Management |
|
Eric M. Cottington has joined Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center as Vice President of Research Resources Management, with overall responsibility for the departments of Sponsored Projects, Research Administration, and Industrial Affairs.
The division that Dr. Cottington heads oversees the administration of resources that are essential to the health of Memorial Sloan-Kettering's research enterprise. These resources include proposals to external sponsors for funding to support research; funds actually awarded or provided to Memorial Sloan-Kettering for research (including grants, contracts, restricted gifts, and institutional funds); and intellectual property (e.g., inventions) that is the result of research conducted at Memorial Sloan-Kettering.
Prior to joining Memorial Sloan-Kettering, Dr. Cottington had been Associate Vice President for Research at Case Western Reserve University for nearly eight years. There he was responsible for sponsored projects administration and research compliance and chaired the Case Conflict of Interest Committee and the Advisory Committee of the Institutional Review Board. Before joining Case, he was Associate Vice President for Research at MCP Hahnemann University, in Philadelphia.
Dr. Cottington received his PhD degree in epidemiology in 1983 from the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public Health. He spent the next two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan and another ten years conducting clinical epidemiologic research at Allegheny-Singer Research Institute in Pittsburgh and at the Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. His areas of research interest included trauma research, clinical trial design and analysis, medical effectiveness and outcomes research, and psychosocial risk factors for chronic diseases.
