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Join M. Maral Mouradian, MD, Vice Chancellor for Faculty Development for an online faculty gathering.

During this event, you will have the opportunity to:

Deadline: Applications are due Monday, April 18, 2022 for the Fall Internship 

Keynote speakers are Rutgers researchers Peter Lobel and David Sleat. The webinar will also feature discussions with panelists from the research and commercialization industry.

Please note: Attendance is required for researchers seeking TechAdvance® and HealthAdvance® funding.

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The Community Engagement Core draws leading academic, industry and community groups together to understand and address the health needs of New Jersey.

Call for Requests: 

Community Engagement Virtual Salons (CEVS) 

CEVS bring researchers together with patients, community members, and health care stakeholders to actively participate in cross-talk. It provides a forum for generating research questions, identifying evidence gaps, and defining outcomes meaningful to patients. To see a CEVS in action, take a look at the summary video featured below.  

If you're interested in working with us, click here to learn more.  

View the Diabetes LifeMap Virtual Salon on YouTube

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NJ ACTS congratulates Dr. Alexander Neimark for receiving a National Science Foundation award of $300,000 for a three year GOALI grant "Theoretical Foundations of Interaction Nanoparticle Chromatography". This GOALI (Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry) award is given for collaboration between Rutgers University and DuPont Corporation to support research on developing theoretical foundations for separation of functionalized nanoparticles using a new technique of interaction nanoparticle chromatography. The foundation for this award comes from the Dr. Neimark's NJ ACTS Pilot grant titled Development of Computational Models to Explore Interactions of Coronavirus Virions with Lung Surfactant Films.

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A Rutgers professor’s novel research into targeting and silencing defective, disease-causing RNA molecules has led to the launch of Ceptur Therapeutics, a startup that has raised $75 million in Series A funding.

The initial research that led to the creation of Ceptur was conducted by principal investigator Samuel I. Gunderson, PhD, associate professor of molecular biology and biochemistry at Rutgers-New Brunswick’s School of Arts and Sciences. Gunderson’s research focused on Ribonucleic acid (RNA), specifically how to manipulate and control RNA to understand its functions and treat different genetic diseases, such as certain blood cancers and neurological disorders.

A rapid test that detects all known COVID-19 variants, including the highly transmissible Omicron variant, has been developed by David Alland, Padmapriya Banada and their team at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.

Registration Deadline: Friday, April 1, 2022

The Genomics Information Commons (GIC) invites the community to a NCATS-sponsored Un-Meeting on “Enabling and Promoting Inter-Institutional Clinical and Genomic Research.” The goal of the meeting is to solicit innovative and collaborative ideas from across the CTSA Consortium to evaluate acceptability and scalability of the GIC’s prototype system, and to ideate around next steps and future directions. Specific topics include: using and analyzing federated genome and phenome data; aligning consenting processes across the Consortium; GIC research topic opportunities – low hanging fruit; facilitation of inter-institutional research collaboration; and GIC cloud-hosted data and analytic environments and technologies for local institutional research.

The Genomic Information Commons (GIC) is an NCATS/NIH funded continuously updating, queryable, federated system enabling and promoting clinical and genomic research across eight pediatric hospitals.  The GIC has established highly scalable technologies, policies, and procedures for sharing genomic data, phenotypic data, and biospecimen metadata on broadly consented cohorts, across sites of care.

For more information on the Un-Meeting, https://clic-ctsa.org/genomic-research-un-meeting.

Every clinical researcher who wants to successful recruit and retain study participants should learn from this important publication from the Recruitment Innovation Center (RIC). The RIC, part of the CTSA's Trial Innovation Network, is tasked with addressing critical roadblocks in clinical research. The RIC consults with CTSA hubs and their research teams on strategies to increase clinical trial enrollment by developing, testing, and sharing innovations to enhance participant recruitment and retention. After 220 consultations with investigators nationwide, the RIC has compiled four primary recommendations for addressing common pitfalls in recruitment and retention.

Emergency Department Management of Hypertension in the Context of COVID-19. Heinert SW, Riggs R, Prendergast H. Curr Hypertens Rep. 2022 Feb;24(2):37-43. PMID: 35076879 PMCID: PMC8787746 DOI: 10.1007/s11906-022-01169-6.

Master’s of Science in Clinical Research Management. Academic Clinical Research Track. This track is especially designed for students with no clinical research or pharmaceutical experience who would like to participate in clinical research at an Academic Medical Center (AMC) functioning as a “study coordinator”. Application Deadline Extended to May 1, 2022.

Regulatory Knowledge and Support Core Staff Cafés - Do you need help regarding any facet of human subjects protection, FDA requirements or other regulatory issues? Join the Regulatory Knowledge and Support Core Staff at our cafés. Next Cafe is March 24, 2022,

10 -11 am. Join via Zoom and Learn More about Regulatory Knowledge & Support.

Build a Successful Collaboration with NJ ACTS Team Science - The Team Science Core offers general and project-specific consultations on building and maintaining successful research teams and collaborations. To set up a consultation, please fill out the intake form. Read more about the Team Science Core.

NJ ACTS Grants Manager-Princeton University is seeking to fill a remote, part-time, 2-year term position for a Grants Manager who will be the primary grants manager at Princeton for the New Jersey Alliance for Clinical and Translation Science (NJ ACTS) award. Submission of a resume and a cover letter is required. View Job Description and Application Details

Clinical Trials Office - Join the Clinical Research Investigator Registry. The purpose of this registry is to match investigators with potential clinical trial opportunities that we are informed of through our industry and academic partnerships. Fill out a Brief Form to Register and Learn More about the Clinical Trials Office