The Integral Charitable Foundation Research Idea Award was established to support graduate students in environmental health science. Fifth-year PharmD/PhD student Christine Kim was selected as a recipient of this award for her research investigating the molecular mechanisms of melatonin-mediated protection against vancomycin-induced kidney injury. Using RNA sequencing, her research aims to characterize NRF2-dependent gene networks […]
The Graduate Research Fellowship in Toxicology from Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. supports students involved in non-clinical and in vivo toxicology research. Sixth year Ph.D. candidate Jessica Rodriguez was chosen as the 2026-2027 recipient of this competitive fellowship. Her research builds on the current understanding of the mechanisms of ozone-induced pulmonary injury and recovery, focusing on the integrated […]
I focus on advancing pulmonary therapeutics by investigating both the effects of environmental pollutants and developing targeted drug delivery systems for lung diseases. We propose that one can mitigate intratracheal bleomycin-induced acute lung injury by blocking the activity of IL-1 in both the inflammatory and fibrotic phases. We propose to use expression of the soluble […]
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 […]
