Don Rubin
Nashville, Tennessee
l and graduated from Cornell University Medical College, now Weill Cornell, interned at Mt. Sinai and did a fellowship in Infectious Diseases with Bernie Fields at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and Harvard Medical School. I stayed in Boston for an additional year while my wife, Esther Eisenberg, was finishing her residency in OB/GYN. We moved to Philadelphia in 1980, where she did her fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology with Ed Wallack, and I had a faculty position at UPENN in Medicine and Microbiology. Our 3 children were born in Philadelphia. In 1992 we moved to Nashville for jobs at Vanderbilt University (and the affiliated VA Medical Center). I started a company, Avatar BioSci, Inc., which has since changed its name to Zirus, INC.
Bragging rights
I swim 2800 meters a morning. I enjoy what I do. I have great kids who are all very creative in their own right. My wife is accomplished at all her various jobs (which are many). I have won teaching awards at UPENN and Vanderbilt, and the Levi Watkins Jr. Award (faculty) for support of Diversity. The last one of these is very special. It is nice to travel far and not forget where your came from.