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NEWS, EVENTS, and DEADLINES
June 27, 2023
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Meet the 3rd Cohort of NJ ACTS KL2 Awardees | |
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KL2 Mentored Career Development Award
On behalf of the Early Career Development Program (KL2) we are delighted to announce they have welcomed four new scholars into the program. Led by Sally Radovick, MD, the KL2 is a Mentored Career Development Award. The award is designed to support junior faculty in the translational sciences supported by NJ ACTS. Welcome and congratulations to our new scholars.
NJ ACTS KL2 Scholars 2023-2025
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Elisa Kallioniemi, PhD, Assistant Professor
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Mentor: Sergei Adamovich, PhD, Professor
Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Project: Brain stimulation/neurophysiological methods
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Kristine Schmitz, MD, FAAP, Assistant Professor
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Mentor: Nancy E. Reichman, PhD, Professor
Department of Pediatrics, RWJMS
Co-Mentor: Lawrence Kleinman, MD, MPH, Professor
and Vice Chair for Academic Development,
Department of Pediatrics, RWJMS
Project: Father's mental health and
their children's health and development
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Kristine Schmitz, MD, FAAP | | |
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Yingci Liu, DDS, MS, Assistant Professor
Rutgers School of Dental Medicine
Mentor: David Foran, PhD, Professor
Department of Pathology,
Laboratory Medicine and Radiology, RWJMS
Project: A deep learning approach to predicting disease progression in oral dysplasia and early-stage malignancy
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Anthony Deo, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Mentor: Carlos Pato, MD, PhD, Professor and Executive Chair
Department of Psychiatry, RWJMS
Co-Mentor: David Zald, PhD, Henry Rutgers Term Professor
Department of Psychiatry, RWJMS
Project: Utilizing natural language processing to identify language biomarkers unique to childhood onset psychosis
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Post-Doc Kimberly Wiersielis Awarded K99/R00 NIH Grant
Dr. Wiersielis, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Animal Sciences, is the recipient of an NIH Pathway to Independence Award that supports outstanding postdoctoral researchers in completing needed mentored training and transition in a timely manner to independent, tenure-track or equivalent faculty positions. Read More.
Wiersielis’ experience with writing grants began in 2019 when invited to attend the Grant Training Center: Professional Grant Development Workshop at Rutgers University. This initial interest then led Wiersielis to the NRMN-CAN grant writing group run in part by Dr. Lauren Aleksunes, the Workforce Development Core Lead for the NJ Alliance for Clinical and Translational Sciences (NJ ACTS). Read More about NJ ACTS Grant Writing Training Programs.
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Community-Based Population Health Research
Earlier this year, Princeton University's ProCES (Program for Community Engaged Scholarship) partnered with NJ ACTS on an NIH grant-funded opportunity that connected five Princeton students with four community-partners working on community-engaged population health research projects:
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Upcoming NJ ACTS, Rutgers, Princeton and NJIT Events | |
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Program session dates:
July 24, July 26, August 2, August 16
4:30pm - 7:30pm online
Through this program I-Corps provides training and grants to support team-based customer research aimed at investigating the viability and societal impact of scientific and technological discoveries.
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Team Science Across the NJ ACTS Consortium
Workshop Series Video
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New Jersey Population Health Cohort Study
The newest video in the series highlights the New Jersey Population Health Cohort Study, which was launched in 2022 to improve understanding of how life events and stress affect health, particularly within historically disadvantaged groups, multigenerational families, and immigrant groups. The overarching goal of the study is to offer practical, actionable information for improving population health, well-being & health equity in New Jersey and beyond.
The study is led by Joel C. Cantor, ScD, director of the Institute for Health’s Center for State Health Policy (CSHP). Speakers include Dr. Cantor, Dr. William Hu (RWJMS, IFH), and Margaret Koller (CSHP).
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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.
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The Princeton Pulse Podcast | |
Which Country Will Be the First to Wipe Out Cervical Cancer?
The latest episode of The Princeton Pulse Podcast highlights a potential win in the fight against cervical cancer – one that comes from a place that you might not expect. Rwanda, a low-income country, could become the first country in the world to eradicate the disease.
Available on the CHW website, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other podcast platforms.
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NCATS, NIH, and Federal News and Events | |
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White House Recognizes N3C as Largest US
Limited-dataset Using Privacy-preserving Analytics
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) has released comprehensive recommendations to promote user data privacy for public and private entities. One of the key technical approaches outlined in the strategy is privacy-preserving record linkage (PPRL), which allows secure, private linkage of individual data across different datasets. The strategy highlights the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) as a prime example of PPRL implementation, harmonizing over 19 million patient-level records while ensuring the protection of sensitive data. Read More
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Introducing... Ansible Podcasts!
Check out the inaugural episode of the Lab to Life podcast from the University of California Irvine to hear host Dr. Dan Cooper, Professor of Pediatrics and the director of the Institute for Clinical and Translational Science, discuss the difference between translational science and translational research – and much more.
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Opioid overdose survivors: Medications for opioid use disorder and risk of repeat overdose in Medicaid patients. Crystal S, Nowels M, Samples H, Olfson M, Williams AR, Treitler P. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2022Mar1;232:109269.
Psychosocial and behavioral therapy in conjunction with medication for opioid use disorder: Patterns, predictors, and association with buprenorphine treatment outcomes. Samples, Hillary; Williams, Arthur Robin; Crystal, Stephen; Olfson, Mark. Journal Of Substance Abuse Treatment. 2022 Aug;139:108774.
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The National Institutes of Health's All of Us Research Program has expanded its data to include nearly a quarter million whole genome sequences for broad research use. Read more! | |
Traumatic Brain Injury and Psychological Health Research Program (TBIPHRP) $175M 2023 Appropriation - For fiscal year 2023 TBIPHRP is offering a range of mechanisms to accommodate research across the development spectrum. See Flyer for Details | |
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. | |
This newsletter is supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under award number, UL1TR003017 to Rutgers University. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not represent the official views of the NIH.
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