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onmEnt for lEarning and studEnt lifE
visible and welcoming presence in the
community. TUSM banners and signs,
expanded lighting, attractive walk and
road pavement, and thoughtful landscape
architecture will create a distinct campus
setting to reinforce our positive presence
in the larger Boston community.
campus center: $ 1 million
We will establish a campus center to
improve the student experience and to
accommodate new approaches to learning
and advising. This facility will include a
cafeteria to foster daily student and faculty
interaction, a large function space for
ceremonies and other events, and space for
students to meet in large and small groups.
tim mitin, m0
MD/PhD Program
medical skills and simulation
center: $ million
Due to the growing use of technology in the
practice of medicine and changing licensure
and certification requirements, we will partner
with our teaching affiliate hospitals to launch
a new approach to simulation technology,
which builds extensively on our advanced
electronic infrastructure, Tufts University
Science Knowledgebase (TUSK). We will
construct a network of simulation centers
on campus and at our teaching hospitals,
each with core functions and specialty
areas that can be leveraged and shared
throughout the Tufts medical community.
Now in his fourth year of medical training, Tim has completed his doctoral work in
pharmacology under the joint MD/PhD program. Originally from Moscow, where he was
trained as a violinist, Tim came to the United States as a teenager, graduated from
high school in Seattle, and majored in biology and chemistry at Cornell. He and his
wife, Liza, a classically trained soprano, are the parents of a new daughter, Nina.
“My research focuses on ‘pharmacogenomics,’ the study of why people respond
differently to the same medication. A pill I give you might knock you for a loop, while
another person will not feel any effect. What is it in the genes of a person that deter-
mines how he or she responds to a medication?
“In the future, we hope to be able to individualize the therapeutic regimen based
on the genetics of the individual patient. A physician would be able to predict how a
person will respond to a medication before it is given, and prescribe a dosage or class
of medication accordingly. The aim is to make medicine more patient-dependent.”