[metaslider id=”4342″] If there’s one thing PhD students need to do, it’s writing. But if there’s one thing PhD students procrastinate, it’s writing! To combat deadlines, the RATS started a Writing Accountability Group (WAG). Meeting every Friday for 2 hours, members must declare their goal for the session, in addition to their goals for the […]
Dr. Gary Grover and Janis Grover are proud supporters of the JGPT and have awarded the 2023 Grover Scholar fellowship to 1st year PhD student Taina Moore and 3rd year PhD student Brianna Ames. Taina is an alumnus of Tuskegee University in Alabama and is currently rotating in the lab of Dr. Emily Barrett. Brianna […]
1st year PhD student Kevin Ozkuyumcu was recently chosen to be a Team Lead for the highly selective NJ Governor’s STEM Scholar Program. Over the course of the academic year, Kevin will be tasked to lead a team of brilliant high school scholars to determine a STEM-driven, local community solution for a problem facing the […]
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.
Toxicology MD/PhD student Jake Lessing, a member of Dr. Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello’s laboratory, participated in a fully-funded PhD Summer School hosted by SymbNET at the Gulbenkian Science Institute in Oeiras, Portugal. Jake joined 34 other international PhD students and 25 faculty members for this 2-week long summer school to explore host-microbial symbioses across the tree […]
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 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 Veronia Basaly was chosen to be the 2023-2024 recipient of this competitive fellowship. Her research focuses on studying the regulation of the nuclear receptor pregnane x receptor (PXR) functions in maintaining […]
Coordinated by 5th year PhD candidate Joanna Woo and 4th year PhD student Talia Seymore, the Toxicology, Health, and Environmental Disease (THED) high school program was a success once again. Held at the end of July, JGPT students took on the role of instructors to help introduce these future scientists to various toxicological topics and […]
Fourth year PhD student Talia Seymore from the Stapleton laboratory has been accepted into the Pre-Doctoral Leadership Development Academy (PLDA) for the upcoming 2023-2024 year. The PLDA is a competitive year-long program that one must be first nominated for by a senior leader in education, such as a program director or department chair, before submitting […]
Students, postdocs, faculty, alumni, and industry colleagues visited Nashville, TN to present and explore the latest in toxicological science at the 62nd annual Society of Toxicology (SOT) meeting in March 2023. Many of our RATS won awards, tallying up to an impressive 31 awards! Congratulations!
