NEW JERSEY ALLIANCE FOR
CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE


NEWS, EVENTS, and DEADLINES
October 28, 2021
Upcoming Events
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Plenary Speakers include:

Anne Barnhill, PhD
Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University

Pamela Koch, PhD
Laurie M. Tisch Center for Food, Education & Policy
Teachers College, Columbia University

Christina Economos, PhD
Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University
 
Panels on "Child Health & Nutrition in the Community" and "Child Health & Nutrition: Overview and Systems Approaches" 


October 29, 2021
9 am - 3pm

NJ ACTS Special Populations Core invites you to join
Olga F. Jarrín Montaner, PhD, RN
Assistant Professor, Rutgers School of Nursing
Director, Community Health & Aging Outcomes Laboratory
Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research

Theory, Methods, and Data Resources for Research on Mitigation of Structural Racism and Discrimination inHealth Care and Social Policy

November 1, 2021
12 pm - 1pm

RITMS Visiting Professor Lectures Series
Akiko Iwasaki, PhD
Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Immunobiology and Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology & Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Yale School of Medicine

Immune responses to SARS-CoV-2

November 4, 2021
12 pm – 1 pm


NJ ACTS Special Populations Core invites you to join
Carlos Pato, MD
Executive Director of Psychiatry,
Rutgers Biomedical and Health Services
Professor of Psychiatry, RWJMS & NJMS
Michele T. Pato, MD
Director, Center for Genomics of Psychiatric Health & Addictions
Professor of Psychiatry, RWJMS & NJMS
Large Scale Population Studies Focused on
Serious Mental Illness and Disparities

November 9, 2021
12 pm – 1 pm




NJ ACTS Team Science Core
invites you to join

Secrets of Successful Teamwork:
What Can Academia Learn from Non-Academia?

Lessons from an Iconic International Architectural Firm

Bradford Perkins, FAIA, MRAIC, AICP
Co-founder and Chairman, Perkins Eastman

Nick Leahy, AIA, LEED AP
Co-CEO and Executive Director, Perkins Eastman

November 15, 2021
2:30 – 3:30 pm

Among its many academic and medical buildings, Perkins Eastman designed the Rutgers Camden School of Nursing.



The 4 Pillars of Successful Mentorship

Good Communication, Aligning Expectations, Fostering Independence, and Promoting Professional Development

presented by:

M. Maral Mouradian, MD
Vice Chancellor for Faculty Development

Anita Siu, PharmD
Clinical Professor,
Director of Faculty Mentoring
Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy

Andrew Gow, PhD
Professor
Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy


November 16, 2021
12 - 1:30 pm

Road to Commercialization Symposium Series
presented by TechAdvance® & HealthAdvance®
Attract and Maintain Industry Interest in Your Innovation

Examine the importance of understanding market needs and ways to engage industry partners and investors to draw and sustain their interest in your technology.

featured guests:

John Currie, MBA (Keynote Speaker)
Principal & Founder, Iterate Ventures

German Drazer, PHD (Panelist)
Professor, Rutgers School of Engineering


November 18, 2021
9:30 am - 12:30 pm
NEWS

Princeton NJ ACTS Fellows Reflect on the Value of the Fellowship

Graduate student Esmat Hegazi and postdoc Rebecca Kim-Yip, both from Princeton’s Department of Molecular Biology are among the new cohort of TL1 trainees, highlighted in the previous edition of the newsletter. They recently reflected on the importance of NJ ACTS and the TL1 program to their research, especially given the fact that Princeton does not have a medical school or clinical programs.

“My research is focused on characterizing the biochemical and functional mechanisms of a set of highly prevalent cancer-associated histone mutations,” says Hegazi. A current challenge in the cancer epigenetic field is the lack of cell specificity in therapeutic targeting….“My hope as a NJ ACTS Fellow is I will be able to bridge the gaps between my fundamental biochemistry research with its translational impact. This fellowship will propel my engagement with clinicians and experts who can give insight on how to directly translate my findings, and the challenges that exist in its translational application,” she adds. Kim-Yip is likewise excited about the networking connections the program makes possible. promotes. She also anticipates that the training the fellowship offers will be particularly helpful for her research on stem cell biology. As summarized by Daniel Notterman, MD, Professor in the Princeton Department of Molecular Biology and Co-Director for the NJ ACTS Training Program, “Since we don’t have a medical school at Princeton, this program provides access to clinical and translational expertise at Rutgers.”


University of Colorado CTSA Creates Stakeholder Engagement Navigator

The online toolkit helps healthcare researchers identify and select methods of engagement based on the constraints and/or criteria of their studies and their identified stakeholders to promote equity in research.
Episode 2:
Back in the Game

Host:
Mary Marchetta O'Dowd, MPH
Executive Director, Health Systems and Population Health Integration
Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences

Guest:
Pat Hobbs
Director of Intercollegiate Athletic



NJ ACTS Publications
Come together: On-chip bioelectric wound closure. Zajdel, Tom J.; Shim, Gawoon; Cohen, Daniel J. Biosens Bioelectron 2021 Nov 15;192:113479. Epub 2021 Jul 8.

In Case You Missed IT
NJ ACTS is a partnership between Rutgers, NJIT and Princeton. NJ ACTS advances clinical and translational science to develop new therapies and treatments and improve population health.
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