Tony (Tiancheng) Hu, Ph.D. Student in the JGPT, was recently awarded the Supplemental Training for Education Program (STEP) Award from the Society of Toxicology (SOT). The STEP Award is designed to help students get additional scientific/professional training in concepts outside of their research. Tony chose to attend a lipidomics course run by UC Davis West […]
The JGPT is excited to announce that our trainees won the top poster prizes at the recent toxicology meeting. This year’s meeting was hosted at Kean University and focused on Novel Approach Methodologies. Congratulations to our winners!
The Integral Charitable Foundation Research Idea Award was established to support graduate students in environmental health science. Fourth-year PhD student Brianna Ames was selected as a recipient of this award for her research evaluating the effects of the environmental metal cadmium on placental immunity in mice. The goal of her research is to investigate the […]
The Parkinson’s Foundation Visiting Scholar Award supports research on Parkinson’s disease (PD) by providing funding for students to visit a host laboratory. Second year Ph.D. student Peri Rose (A. Bernstein lab) was a recipient of the Visiting Scholar Award this year. Her research focuses on how developmental dieldrin exposure increases susceptibility to PD-related insults. […]
The Graduate Research Fellowship in Toxicology from Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. supports students involved in non-clinical and in vivo toxicology research. Fourth year Ph.D. student Samantha Adams was chosen as the 2024-2025 recipient of this competitive fellowship. Her work focuses on studying the maternal cardiovascular health outcomes after inhalation of particulate matter (PM) during pregnancy. […]
Second Year PhD student Kevin Ozkuyumcu was selected as a Team Lead for the highly competitive NJ Governor’s STEM Scholars Program earlier this academic year. As a Team Lead, Kevin led 4 exemplary high school students in the development of a STEM-driven, local community solution for a problem facing the globe following the UN Sustainability […]
Dr. Jiyang Zhang, a JGPT postdoc working under the mentorship of Dr. Shuo Xiao, received the Best Abstract and Platform Presentation Award at the National Oncofertility Meeting in Pittsburgh, PA. Jiyang presented her research on how to develop and use a vitrification approach to cryopreserve individual ovarian follicles for studying female reproductive biology, toxicology, drug […]
JGPT Ph.D. candidates, Chelsea Cary and Zakiyah Henry, have been awarded the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (F31) to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), respectively. F31 fellowships are awarded […]
JGPT PhD student, Chelsea Cary, received the enviable Aaron Shatkin Award for excellence in graduate academic and research achievements. Chelsea is a 5th year predoc trainee, performing research in the laboratory of Dr. Phoebe Stapleton. She is also the recent recipient of an NIH F31 individual training grant focusing on uteroplacental vasculature and fetal growth […]
The TL1 award is offered annually to 5-6 fellows competitively selected from Rutgers, Princeton and New Jersey Institute of Technology. The goal of the fellowship is to enhance career development beyond that encountered in traditional pre- and postdoctoral programs by focusing on the knowledge and expertise needed to conduct translational team research across disciplines. JGPT […]
