Rutgers Researchers Delve Deep Into the Genetics of Addiction.
Danielle Dick, a professor of psychiatry at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School who leads the Rutgers Addiction Research Center, has spent decades hunting genes that contribute to drug and alcohol addiction. While much remains unknown, improving technology has sped the...
Rutgers Physicians Find Success Treating a Child’s Rare Illness.
The prognosis for the sick child, who hadn’t responded to standard treatment, was dire. But a team of Rutgers physicians believed there might be hope despite the conventional wisdom against pursuing any further treatment. What happened over the course of the next few...
During bleak early days of COVID, here’s how 30K out-of-state doctors, nurses helped NJ
As the COVID19 epidemic hit the United States, New Jersey was an early hotspot with medical offices closing down, people encouraged to stay at home, and extreme pressure on the health system. The state of New Jersey adopted emergency rules to permit providers from out...
Register now for the NJ ACTS BERD Workshop Training on 11-17-2022 at 1pm!
Applied Survival Analysis for Biomedical Researchers Target Audience: Biomedical researchers who work with survival data, including faculty members, students, post-docs, and others who need to work with this type of data. All are welcome. Presented by: Dirk Moore, PhD...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. MacDowell's article in Current Opinion in Neurobiology titled, "A Goldilocks theory of cognitive control: Balancing precision and efficiency with low-dimensional control states." The world is rich; we are faced with a wide variety of sensory inputs and...
How we can help children overcome adversity
Five questions with Yanping Jiang, a researcher at the Rutgers Institute for Health, who has studied how to help children overcome adversity. Fostering a strong relationship between children and their caregivers and, more broadly, with their community can help them...
How the Pandemic Impacted America’s Youth Mental Health Crisis.
Even as the need for quality mental health care has climbed sharply among young people in recent years, access to services has gone in the other direction. A 2019 study found that of the 7.7 million children and teens in the U.S. with at least one treatable mental...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Peck's article in the Annals of Surgery Open: Perspectives on Surgical History, Education, and Clinical Approaches titled, "Use of a New Prevention Model in Acute Care Surgery: A Population Approach to Preventing Emergency Surgical Morbidity and...
Can I Get the Flu From Touching Surfaces? Rutgers Researcher Says No.
In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, the coronavirus was everywhere – stuck to our cell phone screens, smeared on our mail, dangling from doorknobs, even clinging to our cereal boxes. Except that it wasn’t. Despite public health guidance suggesting surfaces...
Navigating the IND process for Academic Investigators. 11-9-22, 1-2pm
Interested in Expanding your Knowledge in Clinical and Translational Sciences? The New Jersey Alliance for Clinical and Translational Sciences (NJ ACTS) is inviting you to attend the first session of our three-part Clinical Research Management Collaborative Training...