Landmark Data from Rutgers Cancer Institute and RWJBarnabas Health Show Long-term Complete Responses of T Cell Therapies for HPV-Related Cancers.
Researchers from Rutgers Cancer Institute, New Jersey’s only National Cancer Institute (NCI) - designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, and RWJBarnabas Health, along with colleagues from the National Cancer Institute, a center of the National Institutes of Health,...
NJACTS Community Engagement Core Available Services
Virtual Community Engagement Salon The NJ ACTS CEC Virtual Community Engagement Salons bring researchers together with patients, community members and health care stakeholders to actively participate in cross-talk — to incubate ideas for engagement in the...
Why Your Daily Walk Might Not Work as Well if You’re on Metformin.
A widely-prescribed diabetes drug may be sabotaging one of the most trusted strategies for preventing the disease: exercise. That is the conclusion of a Rutgers-led study published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, which found that metformin...
In the hallways of Princeton, a fascination with the human mind unlocked the power of deep learning.
When Fei-Fei Li arrived in Princeton in January 2007 as an assistant professor, she was assigned an office on the second floor of the computer science building. Her neighbor was Christiane Fellbaum. On the surface, Li and Fellbaum didn’t appear to have much in common....
Rutgers Is Awarded $3.75 Million Federal Grant to Prepare Future Special Education Leaders.
Rutgers University was awarded a five-year, $3.75 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to help forge the next generation of special education leaders. Rutgers will lead the project – called Preparation of Administrators in Special Education, or PASE –...
After His Own Struggles Growing Up, Professor Dedicates ADHD Research to Helping Others Thrive.
Joshua Langberg understands the daily struggles of students with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Growing up he hated going to school, earned poor grades and was criticized for not meeting expectations. “Until about the 10th grade, most of my grades were C’s,...
How Discrimination and Stress Impact the Mental Health of Young Sexual Minority Men.
Young sexual minority men face higher rates of anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance use compared with their heterosexual peers, according to Rutgers Health researchers. In their study, published in the journal Youth, the researchers...
Scientists Find Common Medications May Impact Gut Microbiome for Years.
Each body is unique—particularly your gut; everything from what you eat to your genetics can influence its exact makeup. Now, new research suggests that medications you took years ago may have an impact on your gut microbiome that can last for up to a decade. That’s...
A surprising cause of some urinary tract infections: Contaminated meat.
Researchers have identified a surprising cause of some urinary tract infections: contaminated meat. A four-year study found that nearly 1 in 5 UTIs detected among a group of patients in Southern California were most likely caused by the consumption of chicken, turkey,...
Scientists Discover How Leukemia Cells Evade Treatment.
Researchers from Rutgers Health and other institutions have discovered why a powerful leukemia drug eventually fails in most patients – and found a potential way to overcome that resistance. Team members identified a protein that lets cancer cells reshape their...