Join NJ ACTS Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Research Design (BERD)on 5/28 at 12pm
Randomization Inference with Sample Attrition Presented by Zeyang (Arthur) Yu, PhD Princeton University Thursday, May 28, 2026, 12:00pm – 1:30pm over Zoom Randomization inference is a widely-used and appealing approach for analyzing treatment effects in randomized...
Local infectious disease doctor says Hantavirus risk to public remains low.
Health officials are still monitoring the Hantavirus and contact tracing people in several countries who debarked the MV Hondius cruise ship connected to the outbreak. The ship departed Argentina en route to the Canary Islands with multiple stops along the...
Rutgers researchers: How Meta turned teen attention into a public health crisis.
“Every single day I was on it, all day long. I just can’t be without it.” This was the testimony of Kaley, a 20-year-old woman who, on March 25, won a landmark $6 million California jury verdict against Meta and YouTube for the harms their platforms caused her. As...
Join RITMS for a Faculty Candidate Talk on 5/13 at 2pm
Leveraging Non-human Primate Models for Understanding SARS-CoV-2 Pathogenesis and HIV Latency Kelsie Brooks, PhD Laboratory of Viral Diseases NIAID/NIH Flyer and Join on Zoom
Register for 5/26, 12pm CTSA Webinar: What Biomedicine Can Learn about Reproducibility from Social & Behavioral Research
Stanford CTSA Program on Research Rigor & Reproducibility in collaboration with Duke, Indiana, Harvard, and Columbia, cordially invites you to: What Biomedicine Can Learn about Reproducibility from Social & Behavioral Research: The SCORE Project. This webinar...
This mom had a cervical cancer tumor the size of a baby’s head. A clinical trial saved her life.
Aricca Wallace never thought she'd still be here. In fact, in 2012, she was told she likely had less than a year to live. The Kansas mother of two, now 49, knew something was wrong when she was 33 and noticed bleeding during intercourse. Her gynecologist at the time...
NJ ACTS K12 Request for Applications Open!
The New Jersey Alliance for Clinical and Translational Science (NJ ACTS) is delighted to announce the next cycle of its Clinical-Translational Scientist Junior Faculty Award Program (K12), supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health/National Center for...
Should New York City Burn Its Parks? This Scientist Thinks So.
Aaron Sexton, an assistant professor of plant science from Cornell University, was addressing employees of the city’s parks department last year when he made a startling suggestion. “We should burn New York City parks,” he said. His audience laughed, but he wasn’t...
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...
New Jersey Becomes a Rising Regional Hub for Abortion Care.
New Jersey has become an increasingly important access point for abortion care in the years following the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, though disparities in availability remain throughout the state, according to Rutgers Health researchers. Their...