Seminars, Lectures, Grand Rounds, and Events
RITMS organizes and co-sponsors translational and clinical research seminars, workshops and meetings and disseminate information to its members and partner institutions, directly through emails and our website. For upcoming please see either the calendar or news section on the homepage. For more information about past sponsored events.
RITMS Visiting Professor Lecture Series
2024
| Date/Time | Speaker | Title |
| Nov 12, 2024 12 – 1 pm |
Daniel J. Tschumperlin, PhD Mayo Clinic |
“Shifting from Anti-fibrotic to Pro-reparative Strategies for Pulmonary Fibrosis” View Flyer Child Health, Room 3101 or Join on Zoom |
| April 30, 2024 12 – 1 pm |
Ricardo Rajsbaum, PhD, MS Associate Professor and Director Center for Virus-Host-Innate Immunity (CVHII) Department of Medicine Center for Immunity and Inflammation Rutgers New Jersey Medical School |
“Highly Pathogenic Viruses and Their Interactions with the Host Ubiquitin System” View Flyer |
| April 29, 2024 1-2 pm |
Daniel Burbano-Lombana, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey |
“The Engineering Potential of Fish Research: Swimming Upstream to New Solutions” View Flyer |
| March 4, 2024 | Jun Wang, PhD Associate Professor Department of Medicinal Chemistry Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers |
“Antiviral Drug Discovery and Pharmacology” View Flyer |
| February 26, 2024 | Tuoqi Wu, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Immunology Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center UT Southwestern Medical Center |
“Transcriptional Regulation of Long-term T Cell Immunity.” Hybrid: Child Health Institute, Room 3209 or Zoom |
| February 16, 2024 | Philip Demokritou, PhD Director, Nanoscience and Advance Materials Center (NAMC) Henry Rutgers Chair and Professor, School of Public Health, RBHS Chair, Division of Environmental and Population Health Biosciences Environmental Occupational Health Sciences Institute (EOHSI) |
“FROM PLASTICS TO MICRO-NAOPLASTICS: Potential Environmental Health Implications” Hybrid: Child Health Institute, Room 3101 or Zoom |
2023
| Date/Time | Speaker | Title |
| November 7, 2023 | Kenneth Adler, PhD Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine |
“FROM BENCH TO BEDSIDE: Studies with MARCKS Protein” Join on Zoom in person at Child Health Institute, Room 3101 |
| October 30, 2023 1 pm |
Mark C. Siracusa, PhD Associate Professor, Chancellor Scholar Director, Research Support Core Department of Medicine Rutgers New Jersey Medical School |
“The Effects of Parasitic Helminth Infection on the Central Nervous System.” Conference Room 3209, CHINJ |
NJ ACTS Annual Retreat
Showcases NJACTS accomplishments and progress-to-date, foster trainee presentations, celebrate translational research results, to identify new programmatic initiatives and increase collaborations among NJACTS faculty and partners. Faculty, industry representatives, community affiliates, trainees and scholars are invited.
View Video from the NJ ACTS 2021 Retreat
View Slides from the NJ ACTS 2021 Retreat
Translational Science Seminars and Lecture Series
- Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine Seminars
- Aaron J. Shatkin Lecture
- Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research Seminars & Lectures
- Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey Seminars and Courses
- Rutgers-Princeton Computational Cognitive Neuropsychiatry Seminar series
- Brain Health Institute Meetings & Seminars
Research Resources Workshop Wednesday
The Office of the Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Research announced the 2021 R2W2 series, which each month will host a Zoom Webinar featuring shared resource core facilities available to Rutgers researchers. Core directors and other expert panelists will lead discussion and Q&A on the services they provide to Rutgers faculty.
Zoom Links for these webinars are in the NJ ACTS calendar.
| Date | Topic | Speaker(s) |
|---|---|---|
| October 16, 2024 | NJ ACTS and Research Resources | Reynold A. Panettieri Jr, MD Vice Chancellor for Translational Medicine and Science Rutgers Health Watch on YouTube |
| January 12, 2022 | University-Industry Partnerships | Sacha Patera, PhD Associate Vice President, RU Corporate Engagement Center Najoua Borkadi, PhD Executive Director of Research Business Development, RBHS |
| February 9, 2022 | Advanced Research Computing Watch on YouTube |
David Foran, PhD Chief Research Informatics Office, RBHS J. Barr von Oehsen, PhD Associate Vice President Advanced Research Computing, Rutgers |
| March 9, 2022 | Rutgers Brain Imaging Watch on YouTube |
Stephen Jose Hanson, PhD Director, Rutgers Brain Imaging Center David Zald, PhD Director, Center for Advanced Human Brain Imaging Research |
| April 13, 2022 |
Clinical Trials Resources
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Reynold A. Panettieri Jr., MD RBHS Vice Chancellor for Translational Medicine Jose M. Roman, JD, DMin Vice President of Research Administration, Rutgers |
| May 11, 2022 | NJ ACTS Biomarkers Core Watch on YouTube |
Marila Gennaro, MD Professor of Medicine, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and Epidemiology, Rutgers School of Public Health |
| June 15, 2022 | Chemical Analysis Facility Core | Brian T. Buckley, PhD Executive Director of Laboratories & Associate Director of Administration EOHSI, Rutgers University |
Past Sponsored Events
Examples of past sponsored events:
“Industry Trends in Devised and Digital Health Geared towards Personliazed Medicine,” Adrienne Lovink, PhD, April 24, 2017, BME 122, sponsored by the Precision and Personalized Medicine Spring 2017 Seminar Series.
“New Technologies in Cancer Research,” April 6, 2017, 8:55- 5:30, Wolfensohn Hall, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ
“Big Data, Small Data, and the Implications for Human Subjects Research,” presented by OHRP staff at a Research Community Forum at the Hilton Meadowlands in East Rutherford, NJ on April 4-5, 2017. The workshop will examine several important issues that arise from the use of big data. Research with large datasets to reveal patterns and associations, along with the development of personalized medicine that these analyses have allowed, present legal, regulatory, and ethical implications for researchers and participants.
“Scholarship, Research and Best Practices in Diversity and Inclusion: Current Findings and Emerging Issues,” Juan Gonzalez, PhD, March 31, 2017. New Brunswick Theological Seminary.
“Leveraging Advanced Technologies to Investigator the Clinical Impact of the Human and Mammalian Microbiomes,” George Weinstock, PhD, March 29, 2017 CIPR 120, sponsored by the Precision and Personalized Medicine Spring 2017 Seminar Series.
“Of Mice and Men(in) and What I Learned from Both,” Steven Libutti, MD, March 24, 2017, keynote at the Joint Molecular Biosciences Graduate Student Association (JMBGSA) Research Symposium, 10:00 am – 4:30 pm, Life Science Bldg Atrium, Busch Campus, Rutgers.
“Just Research in an Unjust World”, a Lecture by Dr. Francis Barchi, Wednesday, March 22, 2017, 1 p.m. – 3 p.m., Rutgers School of Nursing, Ackerson Hall, Room 101, 180 University Ave, Newark, NJ.