Johmary Adames ’24 and Dr. Krupesh Patel have joined forces to create a protective cover to shield patients’ mediports. Adames is an industrial design major, and Dr. Patel is a pediatric oncologist, who’s close to finishing his MBA at NJIT. Mediports are small,...
Virtual Community Engagement Salon The NJ ACTS CEC Virtual Community Engagement Salons bring researchers together with patients, community members and health care stakeholders to actively participate in cross-talk — to incubate ideas for engagement in the...
A five-year federal grant awarded to Rutgers University-Newark will soon begin examining whether something as simple as rigorous exercise can help stave off Alzheimer’s disease in African Americans. The funding, from the National Institute on Aging (NIA), part...
The university is participating in the effort to determine the efficacy of what could be the first vaccine to prevent Lyme disease in children ages 5 to 17. Rutgers has been selected as a clinical trial site for the national research study by drug company Pfizer Inc....
Please read Dr. Blaser’s article in Cancer Cell titled, “Tumor microbiome links cellular programs and immunity in pancreatic cancer.” The microbiome contributes to human health and disease, including oncogenesis. Although it is uncertain whether the...