NJ ACTS Pilot Awardee Tim Buschman Receives Prestigious National Academy of Sciences Award

Buschman, Associate Professor of Psychology at Princeton University, will receive a Troland Research Award for his groundbreaking insights into the neural mechanisms of cognitive control, particularly how these mechanisms relate to attention and working memory. Read the Full Story

Buschman is also the recipient of an NJ ACTS Pilot Grant for his work with Rutgers Professor David H. Zald on their project "Quantifying the dynamics of working memory in patients with schizophrenia".

NJ ACTS TL1 Fellow Gregory Peck Receives

NIH K23 Mentored Patient-Oriented

Career Development Award

NJ ACTS congratulates Gregory Peck, DO, Associate Professor of Surgery and a KL2 Scholar on the receipt of a K23 from NIH. Dr. Peck will use this award to explore "The Natural History of Overall Mortality with Diagnosed Symptomatic Gallstone Disease in the United States: A Sequential Mixed-methods Study Evaluating Emergency, Non-emergency, and No Cholecystectomy". The mentored award will allow Dr. Peck to pivot from a primarily clinical career to a research career as an independent clinical epidemiologist studying digestive diseases requiring emergency surgery.

This project will provide population-based data to document the natural epidemiology and the overall mortality of Diagnosed Symptomatic Gallstone Disease (dSGD) in the US, and how this may or may not have changed in response to increasing health insurance. This will inform the candidate’s design of future etiologic studies to understand and eventually to reduce mortality from dSGD.

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Learn About the New NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy  

NIH’s new Data Management & Sharing (DMS) Policy went into effect January 25, 2023. This requires researchers to prospectively plan for how scientific data will be preserved and shared. Investigators are now required to: 

• Submit a Data Management and Sharing plan outlining how scientific data and accompanying metadata will be managed and shared
• Comply with the Data Management and Sharing plan approved by the funding Institute or Center (IC). 

The Research and Sponsored Programs Office and Rutgers University Libraries are offering a webinar that summarize the new policy and discuss resources to help faculty comply. 

February 16, 2023

12 - 1 pm

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Rare Disease Day at NIH 2023

Rare Disease Day at NIH will be held in person at NIH Main Campus (Natcher Conference Center) on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. EST. There also will be a virtual livestream via NIH VideoCast with the event archived for replay afterward. The event agenda features panel discussions, rare diseases stories, exhibitors and scientific posters. The event is free and open to the public.