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Rutgers Leads Study of Wildfire Air Pollution in New Jersey.
Rutgers scientists have examined the physical and chemical attributes as well as the possible toxicological health effects of the Canadian wildfires that sharply impacted air quality in New Jersey and the New York metropolitan area. Using state-of-the-art...
Faculty Workshop in Mentoring Biomedical PhD Students on 9/13 – Register Now!
The NIH is requiring faculty to be trained in how to mentor PhD students. We are therefore offering these workshops for faculty in the biological sciences with new case studies each time. This will make our programs more competitive for training grants and...
How eavesdropping viruses battle it out to infect us.
They can lie low, quietly infiltrating the body’s defenses, or go on the attack, making many copies of themselves that explode out of hiding and fire in all directions. Viral attacks are almost always suicide missions, ripping apart the cell that the virus has been...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Yang's article in Allergy titled, "Adventitial stromal cells and myofibroblasts recruit pro- and anti-inflammatory immune cells in allergic airway inflammation." Allergic asthma is characterized by airway inflammation and bronchial...
NIH Fellowship Application Grant Writing Group (Registration is Open!)
Interested in NIH NRSA fellowship applications for December 2023 or April 2024? The New Jersey Alliance for Clinical & Translational Sciences Workforce Development Core would like to invite you to join the Fall 2023 NIH Fellowship Writing Group. For: PhD and...
Understanding the Barriers – and Solutions – to America’s Youth Mental Health Crisis.
While the COVID-19 public health threat has diminished in recent months, a corresponding mental health crisis exacerbated by the pandemic shows no signs of waning. Last year, more New Jersey teenagers sought emergency medical care for anxiety and depression than in...
At NJIT, McNair Scholars Advance Research as Their Futures Unfold
NJIT’s McNair Scholars have been igniting their research efforts in campus labs this summer, and many are starting to see their career aspirations take shape in the process. NJIT’s Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement program has often been described as...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Heinert's article in the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine titled, "More AccessibleCOVID-19 Treatment Through Monoclonal Antibody Infusion in the Emergency Department." On November 9, 2020, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an...