As part of the Rutgers commencement week, Dr. Zhiping Pang, Associate Professor, Division of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Department of Pediatrics, RWJMS, received the Rutgers Presidential Outstanding Faculty Scholar Award. This award recognizes tenured faculty members whose breadth of academic portfolios reflect outstanding research, scholarship, or creative work, as well as truly outstanding contributions to teaching along with extensive service to the Rutgers community and beyond.
Mark A. Rossi, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, received a grant award from the Whitehall Foundation, Inc in the amount of $300,000 to support his ongoing research project for a 3 year period. The goals of his project titled, “Linking hypothalamic GABAergic activity with adaptive behavior” is to uncover the relationship between LHAGABA network activity and adaptive behavior.
Dr. Zhiping Pang received notice of the award of a major new grant from the National Institute of Mental Health entitled "Assay and Data Generation Center for the Model of iPSC-derived Neurons for Neuropsychiatric Diseases". This five-year grant of $8.73 million, obtained in collaboration with Jennifer Mulle at Rutgers Health (Psychiatry and CABM) and Jubao Duan at North Shore University Health System, will develop a pipeline study the molecular and neurobiological effects of up to 200 genes implicated in neuropsychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, autism spectrum disorders, bipolar disease and depression.
Congratulations to our CHINJ student Xiao Su! for being one of the three predoctoral fellowship awardees from the Autism Science Foundation!
An expert in the diagnosis of viral infections and in emerging viral diseases, Dr. Herrera will conduct research in collaboration with the Rutgers Global Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Department of Medicine's Division of Infectious Disease and Immunology.
The lab was named in honor of the former board member and longtime supporter.
A Rutgers study suggests the underproduction of poorly understood immune cells contribute to Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of cognitive decline.
Rutgers-led study highlights potential of new techniques to study mental disorders.
The retreat featured an insightful keynote address from Martin Blaser on the microbiome and presentations by faculty and trainees.
Monday, May 06, 2024, 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | CHINJ SEMINAR ROOM 3101
Monday, June 03, 2024, 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. | Child Health Institute of New Jersey, Seminar Room 3209
This series was established in 2003 from the generosity of Dr. Kenneth S. and Audrey S. Gould. The annual Spring event hosts distinguished scientists at the forefront of research on the molecular and cellular basis of disease. Scientists, colleagues and students across Rutgers and nearby universities and scientific communities are welcome. For more information, contact Kathleen Semler at 732-235-9523 or kathleen.semler@rutgers.edu.
The Child Health Institute Science Seminar Series welcomes scientists and students from CHINJ, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, and Rutgers University. This series provides a forum to share scientific progress and discuss its impact on child health. Seminars take place once or twice per month on Mondays from 1-2 pm. For more information, contact Stephanie Peeters at 732-235-3397 or speeters@rwjms.rutgers.edu.
The biweekly Research in Progress Seminar Series is part of the ongoing training and research dissemination. The aim is to foster interdisciplinary communication and collaboration to increase awareness of research at Child Health Institute labs. Meetings are twice a month on Tuesdays from 12-1 pm and are open to CHINJ faculty, students and staff. For more information, contact Stephanie Peeters at 732-235-3397 or speeters@rwjms.rutgers.edu.