Ben Rubin, PhD
Assoc Dir, Precision Medicine
VC Science Policy & Strategy
Chancellor/EVC/FAS
Ben Rubin serves as the Associate Director of Precision Medicine at USCF in the Office of Science Policy and Strategy. Prior to this position Ben served as a Science Officer for CIAPM at UCSF from 2018-2019, where he oversaw the selection, execution, and evaluation of demonstration projects, and provided strategy and support to CIAPM and its research and governmental partners.
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Before joining CIAPM, Rubin directed efforts at Children Now to leverage the science of resilience, toxic stress, and childhood trauma to support multi-sector public policy efforts. Before that, he served in the California State Senate Health Committee as a Science & Technology Policy Fellow.
Ben was a postdoctoral researcher at the California Institute of Technology and Brandeis University, earned his PhD in Neurobiology from Duke University, and graduated summa cum laude with a BA in Biology and Psychology from Cornell University.
Education & Training
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- Postdoc Neuroscience Brandeis 2011
- Postdoc Neuroscience CalTech 2008
- PhD Neurobiology Duke University 2002
- BA Biology and Psychology Cornell University 1996
Interests
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- computational sciences
- precision medicine
- science policy
Websites
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- UCSF Precision Medicine (precisionmedicine.ucsf.edu)
Publications (3)
Top publication keywords:
TasteRats, Inbred LECStereoisomerismOlfactory Receptor NeuronsOdorantsPentanolsChemoreceptor CellsOlfactory BulbSmellArachisBrain MappingRats, Long-EvansDiscrimination LearningMicroscopy, VideoStimulation, Chemical
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Licking microstructure reveals rapid attenuation of neophobia.
Chemical senses 2013 Monk KJ, Rubin BD, Keene JC, Katz DB -
Spatial coding of enantiomers in the rat olfactory bulb.
Nature neuroscience 2001 Rubin BD, Katz LC -
Optical imaging of odorant representations in the mammalian olfactory bulb.
Neuron 1999 Rubin BD, Katz LC