The New Jersey Alliance for Clinical and Translational Science Corrections and Events October 19, 2021

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NJ ACTS Special Populations Webinar Series CORRECTED DATE - November 1, 2021

Theory, Methods, and Data Resources for Research on Mitigation of Structural Racism and Discrimination inHealth Care and Social Policy 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 Original Date 10/25/21 CORRECTED DATE November 1, 2021 12 pm - 1pm Join via Zoom View Flyer This seminar will highlight new data infrastructure for incorporating special populations in research and exploring the impact of structural racism and discrimination on trajectories of aging and health outcomes.

RITMS Visiting Professor Lecture Series November 4, 2021 

Immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 Akiko Iwasaki, PhD Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Immunobiology and Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Yale School of Medicine 12 pm – 1 pm November 4th, 2021 View Flyer Join via Zoom

Dr. Zorimar Rivera-Núñez Awarded R21 Grant and ECHO Grant Workforce Development Core Grant Writing Training Program Participant

Congratulations to Zorimar Rivera-Núñez, PhD, an Assistant Professor at the School of Public Health and Resident Scientist in the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute (EOHSI) on receiving two awards from the NIH. Her first R21 grant is entitled “ Emerging Mycoestrogens: Impacts on Placental and Early Childhood Growth (R21ES032047), and her project, “Genetic Variation in the Placental Barrier: Impact on Child Environmental Health Studies.” Was funded by the NIH’s Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program.      Dr. Rivera-Núñez is the latest successful participant in the Workforce Core's Grant Writing Training Program (not the IFH Grant Writing Program as incorrectly stated in the 10/14/21 Newsletter).   Please visit https://njacts.rbhs.rutgers.edu/education-training/workforce-development/grant-writing-training/ to find out more about the Workforce Core's Grant Writing Training and See Recent Awardees from this program! 

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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