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Two Rutgers Professors Named Fellows of National Academy of Inventors

Dr. Edmond J. LaVoie, Professor and Chair of Medicinal Chemistry in the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, and Dr. Joachim Messing, Distinguished Professor of Molecular Biology and Director of the Waksman Institute of Microbiology, have joined the ranks as elected Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors, the highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors.  Collectively, the 2018 Class of 148 Fellows represent 125 research universities and governmental and non-profit research institutes worldwide and are named inventors on nearly 4,000 issued U.S. patents.  Read more
Announcements
ResearchwithNJ.com Receives New Jersey Tech Council's 2018 Collaboration Award

A statewide initiative aimed at increasing innovation exchange, establishing greater collaboration between academia and industry, and helping to market New Jersey as a center of innovation, ResearchwithNJ.com received the Collaboration Award from the New Jersey Tech Council at its 22nd
 Anniversary Awards Celebration. Led by the  New Jersey Economic Development Authority and the Office of the Secretary of Higher  Education,  ResearchwithNJ.com is  an online gateway that allows entrepreneurs and commercial enterprises to identify experts, facilities, publications, intellectual property, news, and events in STEM-related fields at five of the state's universities, including Rutgers.  Receiving the  award for his efforts on b ehalf of Rutgers was Dr. Paul Copeland, Director of Research Development at ORED, who has managed the Research with Rutgers project since its inception.  Learn more
Resources for Researchers
RDI2 Fellowships for Excellence in Computation and Data Science Available

The Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute invites applications for its Fellowships for Excellence in Computational and Data Science. Up to three fellowships will support Graduate students in all areas o f Computational and Data-enabled Science and Engineering (CDSE) with a specific focus on research in Big Data and Extreme Scale computing for academic year 2019-2020 .  Read more
Funding Spotlight
Limited Submission Opportunities
Cultivating Cultures for Ethical STEM funds research projects that identify (1) factors that are effective in the formation of ethical STEM researchers and (2) approaches to developing those factors in all the fields of science and engineering that NSF supports. Proposals are limited to one per Chancellor and pre-proposals must be submitted through Rutgers'  Limited Submission process. The internal application deadline is December 19, 2018.

HEAL Initiative: Early Phase Pain Investigation Clinical Network - Data Coordinating Center
The purpose of the HEAL Initiative funding opportunity is to invite applications for the Data Coordinating Center of the Early Phase Pain Investigation Clinical Network (EPPIC-Net). EPPIC-Net will provide a robust and readily accessible infrastructure for carrying out in-depth phenotyping and biomarker studies in patients with specific pain conditions, and the rapid design and performance of high-quality Phase 2 clinical trials to test promising novel therapeutics for pain from partners in academia or industry. Deadline: February 6, 2019 .  Learn more

Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1
The Mid-scale RI program provides a competitive opportunity to support research infrastructure of intermediate scales. It will support a wide variety of research infrastructure design and implementation activities for any combination of equipment, infrastructure, upgrades to major research facilities, computational hardware and software, and the necessary commissioning, all leading to the direct advancement of fundamental science, engineering and STEM education research. Preliminary proposals are required and are due by February 19, 2019. Learn more

Grants & Awards
Congratulations...  to the following Rutgers researchers for their recently-awarded grants: 

Jeffrey Laskin  - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Teresa Wood - New Jersey Medical School
Cheryl Dreyfus - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Sue Shapses  -  School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
Max Tischfield - School of Arts and Sciences
Jennifer Buckman  - School of Arts and Sciences

Learn about their research under Grant Announcements .
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