Inaugural Celebration of the Research Accomplishments of Grover Scholars

What a wonderful celebration of our Grover Scholars on Tuesday! The science was compelling and spanned so many areas – wildfire toxicology, PFAS disposition, post-translational modifications, glial biology, and analytical chemistry! Thank you Dr. Gary grover and Mrs. Janis Grover for your dedication to training the next generation of pharmacologists and toxicology. Congratulations Veronia Basaly, Michael Campbell, Brianna Ames, Gina Capece, Alan […]

Disha Gupta and Tony Hu attended the Gordon Research Conference

Disha Gupta and Tiancheng (Tony) Hu, both 4th year Ph.D. Students in Rutgers Joint Graduate Program in Toxicology, recently attended the Immunometabolism in Health and Disease Gordon Research Seminar/Conference. Disha presented a poster on her work with CO2 exposure, impairment in decision making, and changes in neutrophil metabolism. Tony presented a poster and gave a […]

Time for the Craft Exchange!

On April 23, 2026, we held our semi-annual craft exchange in EOHSI – students, staff, and faculty were matched for the exchange of custom designs.  Impressive and wide-reaching skills were on display – quilting, paper flowers, crochet, painting, beading, wood working, painting and cross-stitch!  Care was taken to design each piece for the recipient.

SOT STEP Award to Tony Hu to Learn about Metabolomics 

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 […]

JGPT Student Alyssa Juenke Helps Shape New Jersey’s Policy Landscape

Excerpted from article on School of Public Health news blog: Alyssa Juenke, a Ph.D. student in toxicology at the School of Graduate Studies and an Epidemiology Methods Certificate student at the Rutgers School of Public Health, studies how a common food contaminant – zearalenone – may affect reproduction, pregnancy and early child development. “I decided […]

Postdoc Rachel Buckley Receives Grant from MPRINT

Dr. Rachel Buckley in the laboratory of Dr. Lauren Aleksunes was selected to receive a pilot grant from MPRINT, an NIH hub for precision maternal-pediatric therapeutics. Dr. Buckley will work with scientists at MPRINT to refine a novel untargeted metabolomics method to identify novel substrates of human placenta transporters. Congratulations Rachel!  

RATS partner with Rutgers Faculty and Clean Water Action to Promote Safer Beauty Products

JGPT Students Jennae Whited (Rivera-Nunez lab), Taina Moore (Stapleton lab), and Sam Adams (Stapleton lab) participated in a Beauty Justice Event hosted by Clean Water Action.  Under the mentorship of Drs. Emily Barrett and Zorimar Rivera Nunez, the students educated community members about how to read labels on beauty products and select options that with […]

Alyssa Juenke has been chosen as a 2025-2026 Eagleton Graduate Fellow

“The Eagleton Institute Graduate Fellowship Program in Politics and Government is a one-year program aimed at furthering fellows’ understanding of government, public policy, and how American politics impacts their field of study. Third year PhD student Alyssa Juenke has been chosen as a 2025-2026 Eagleton Graduate Fellow. In the fall, fellows take the Perspective in […]

BIGCARE SUMMER WORKSHOP: BIG DATA TRAINING FOR CANCER RESEARCH

This past summer, Cassie Winz, a PhD candidate in the Joint Graduate Program in Toxicology (JGPT), participated in the BigCARE Summer Workshop: Big Data Training for Cancer Research at the University of California, Irvine. This two-week intensive program, funded by the National Cancer Institute, provided advanced training in the generation, analysis, and integration of large-scale biological datasets relevant […]