Announcements

CHINJ held its 6th Annual Scientific Retreat on September 25, 2024 at the Cook Student Center. Over 65 faculty, trainee, staff, and Board Members attended and enjoyed a wonderful day of science and collegiality.  The exciting keynote lecture by Dr. Daniel Notterman of Princeton University Dept. of Molecular Biology described recent studies examining the roles of genetics, environment and social determinants of health and health care disparities on the initiation and development of atherosclerotic heart disease in adolescents and young adults in the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing study.  The program also included talks by graduate students and postdocs as well as 25 posters presented by trainees at different levels. Overall, it was a terrific day.  We look forward to next years' retreat.

On May 12th-17th, 2024, the Fragile X Autism Disorders Gordon Research Conference was held in Tuscany, Italy. Rutgers doctoral student Abihail Heller, who is completing her dissertation in Dr. Chiara Manzini’s lab here at The Child Health Institute of New Jersey, was able to share and explain her work ‘Characterizing the Impact of Developmental Cc2d1a Reduction as a Novel Mouse Model of ASD/ID’ through a poster presentation at the conference!  Click Here to read full article on LinkedIn

A team of Rutgers undergraduates has shown that an experimental drug known as Yoda1 may help drain cranial waste plus neurotoxins that cause Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.

Andrew Boreland, a current biomedical Ph.D. student, is a shining example of the excellence that exists in our RBHS graduate programs. Andrew has taken full advantage of the opportunities that Rutgers School of Graduate Studies–Biomedical Health Sciences has to offer and has succeeded at the highest level.

CHI held its 5th Annual Scientific Retreat on September 19, 2023.  The event was a fantastic success and attended by over 70 CHINJ scientists, trainees and staff. The program included 8 presentations by CHI's research trainees; a talk by Dr. Kristine Schmitz, a young faculty member from our joint program in population science and prevention with Dr. Keinman, and Keynote Speaker Dr. Richard O'Reilly from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center who presented a talk on "Transplantation and the Emergence of T-Cell Therapies."

Andrew Boreland, a graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. Zhiping Pang, has been awarded the Aaron Shatkin Award for Outstanding Graduate Student.  The Shatkin Awards are given annually to Ph.D. students in the biomedical sciences for excellent academic and research achievement. The scholarship is named after Aaron Shatkin, who was the founding director of the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine. 

Congratulations to Andrew!