The RATS were awarded GSO of the Year for excelling at creating an inclusive community that supports its graduate students. As president of the organization for the 2022 – 2023 year, Zakiyah Henry has also been awarded the Excellence in Graduate Leadership Award for her role in guiding the RATS to this achievement. Congratulations!
Kevin was recently awarded one of four CounterACT Trainee research awards for the 16th Annual CounterACT Network Research Symposium. The symposium took place at the NIH Campus in Bethesda, MD, where Kevin presented his work entitled: Sulfur Mustard Induces Structural Changes in the Dermis of Gottingen Minipig Skin.
The following article by Chelsea Cary is copied from this original article. The Scientist Mentoring and Diversity Program (SMDP) is a year-long mentoring program that helps underrepresented trainees in biomedical sciences from academic backgrounds transition into the pharmaceutical or biotech industry. This program aims to increase diversity at the executive and administrative level in these […]
The INSPIRE Postdoctoral Program at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School is sponsored by NIH-IRACDA and provides funding for up to three years of mentored research experience at Rutgers and training in educational methods including mentored teaching at nearby minority serving institutions. Her research, under the mentorship of Dr. Grace Guo, will focus on understanding […]
Emily Stevenson, a JGPT predoc mentored by Dr. Andrew Gow, is the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics’ Highlighted Trainee Author for the September 2022 issue. The JPET article that earned her selection as a Highlighted Trainee Author is titled “Intratracheal Administration of Acat-1 Inhibitor K-604 Reduces Pulmonary Inflammation Following Bleomycin-induced Lung Injury” and is […]
Jake Lessing, an MD/PhD candidate in the JGPT, has been awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award F30 grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Development. F30 fellowship awards are designed to develop promising MD/PhD predoctoral students into productive, independent physician-scientists through mentored research training at the bench […]
Kevin Ozkuyumcu, Class of 2023 in Rutgers Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy and soon-to-be JGPT predoc student, was recently awarded one of sixteen undergraduate research awards from the Society of Toxicology (SOT). Along with the award was an all-expense paid trip to the SOT 61st Annual Meeting and ToxExpo in San Diego where Kevin presented […]
In November 2021, the Rutgers Center for Lipid Research awarded nine trainees with grants to further their research in lipid signaling and targeted interventions. Two of the awardees are students in the Joint Graduate Program in Toxicology – Zakiyah Henry in the laboratory of Dr. Grace Guo and Jeffrey Burns in the laboratory of Dr. […]
The Fall 2021 meeting of the MidAtlantic Society of Toxicology meeting was held on Oct 8th in collaboration with the MidAtlantic Reproductive and Teratology Association. The focus of this meeting was on Advances in Reproductive Toxicology. Eleven trainees were selected for oral presentations to the two societies including 10 from Rutgers. They include Candace Longoria, Shengjie […]
Skye and Jake made a trip to locations in upstate New York to engage with Citizen Science organizers. Here is Skye’s accounting of the experience: My postdoc plan changed radically when an international pandemic brought face-to-face, community-engaged research to a halt making the environmental justice fieldwork that drives me impossible. As the country started to […]
