May 23, 2023

RESEARCH CONNECTIONS

Rutgers is part of a new federally funded regional collaboration to drive economic and technological advancements in photonics, a field involving the use of light in areas as diverse as medicine, communications and defense, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced.

The consortium, which includes researchers from Rutgers-Newark and Rutgers-New Brunswick, has been awarded a development grant from the NSF’s Regional Innovation Economic Engine consortium, led by Princeton University’s Craig B. Arnold, principal investigator, and co-led by Rowan University, with partners throughout New Jersey and neighboring states Delaware, Pennsylvania and New York. 

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Innovation Ventures invites Rutgers graduate students (JD, Masters, and PhD) and Postdoctoral candidates to apply for any or all of our Senior Internship programs (Commercialization Funds, Intellectual Property Law, New Ventures, Technology Marketing & Business Development), beginning Summer 2023.

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Innovation Ventures, the technology transfer unit within the Office for Research transforms research into products, services, & partnerships for the public good, generating value for Rutgers University & the State of New Jersey. Learn more from Deborah Perez Fernandez, acting executive director of Innovation Ventures.

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Congratulations to the Office of Advanced Research Computing's Bala Desinghu, Kenneth Dalenberg, Jeremy Schafer, and Jason Kaelber from Rutgers Institute for Quantitative Biology for their work with ERN's Cryo-EM Federated Instrument Pilot Project, "working with Ohio Supercomputer Center's Open OnDemand portal to provide national access to equipment."

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Thank you, and congratulations to all of our Patent Award recipients who attended last night's celebration. Attendees heard remarks from our SVP for Research Michael E. Zwick and Deborah Perez Fernandez.

The invite-only event honored and recognized 171 Rutgers University researchers who were issued a total of 315 U.S. Patents between fiscal years 2020-2022. Follow us on social media to see more photos from the event.

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The Office for Research is pleased to announce the seed funding awardees through its Research Incubator in Climate and Health! The Research Incubator in Climate and Health is an Office for Research initiative that has aimed to support researchers across Rutgers developing new research projects that intersect with institutional strengths and funding sponsor priorities at the climate-health nexus.

The Research Incubator’s Seed Funding Initiative provides pilot funding to build new and novel research projects aligned with the Incubator’s theme and to strengthen the competitive position of faculty members who seek external research funds to further support these projects. Team pilot grants are intended for groups of three or more, while early-career pilot grants are intended for single PI who have completed their research degree or post grad training within the last 10 years.

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The Center for Advanced Proteomics Research (CAPR) at the New Jersey Medical School (NJMS) of the Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences is located in the Cancer Institute of New Jersey-Newark, F-1105. This facility is equipped with state-of-the-art proteomics instruments and bioinformatics systems, including a Thermo Scientific Orbitrap Fusion Lumos Tribrid mass spectrometer coupled with a Dionex UltiMate 3000 RSLCnano system. With this advanced instrument, our team of experienced and responsive scientists have contributed to the success of researchers at Rutgers, in the NY area, and from the world. The team offers comprehensive services for protein analysis at both cell and tissue levels in the context of disease development and regulation, featuring the most advanced proteomics technologies currently available. For more information contact Director, Hong Li.

Busch Biomedical Grants

Sponsored by the Office for Research, the Busch Biomedical Grant program is designed to enhance biomedical research at the university and to strengthen the competitive position of faculty members who seek external research funds. The program has two funding tracks (revised for the 2023 competition):

1. Early Career Pilot Grants - Single investigator awards from early-career investigators.
2. New Direction Pilot Grants - Single investigator awards for mid- and senior-career investigators to facilitate exploration of innovative new projects that illustrate a significant departure from the applicant’s previously funded work.

Applicants are not required to submit a notice of intent to submit a full application for either track. Full proposals are due June 1.

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NSF Dear Colleague Letter: RFI on College Graduates and AI Skills

The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Directorate for STEM Education (EDU) is seeking input from institutions of higher education (IHEs) and other interested parties to help with an assessment of the capacity of IHEs related to Artificial Intelligence (AI).

This Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) is not intended to solicit proposals, but rather to invite input from a variety of sources. The deadline for submissions is June 21.

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This workshop on June 2 at 1:00 p.m. provides hands-on training on how to utilize packages like numpy, pandas, matplotlib, plotly, etc. to store, process, and visualize data. A Zoom link will be emailed after filling out the registration form. You must have an Amarel account set up before the workshop.

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New Jersey Research Cores Partnering Conference

Join us for a special conference on June 22 highlighting many of the core labs in the State of New Jersey that help foster collaborations and spark innovations. Core labs from Princeton University, Rutgers University, Rowan University, Stevens Institute of Technology, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Montclair State University, Kean University and many more will be highlighted.

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The Risk & Resilience to Alzheimer's Disease in African Americans conference on June 22 will present the latest data on biological, behavioral, social, and environmental influences on individual differences in aging, brain health, and Alzheimer’s disease in older African Americans – bridging correlational, longitudinal, and interventional methodologies.

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