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 […]
I was selected to receive a Supplemental Training for Education Program (STEP) Award from the Society of Toxicology this past year where I could participate in a proposed career development activity of my choice. I chose to attend a Continuing Education course at the American College of Toxicology (ACT) Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona. In […]
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!
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!
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
Christine Kim, a Ph.D. candidate in the JGPT, has been awarded from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). This prestigious fellowship supports promising predoctoral students and provides mentored research training to prepare them for independent research careers. Christine is investigating how melatonin, a widely used sleep supplement, protects against […]
Michael Campbell, a graduate candidate in the Joint Graduate Program in Toxicology (JGPT), participated in a two-week immersive training program this past summer at the renowned Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The program focused on endocrine-disrupting chemicals including phthalates, bisphenols, and PFAS and their impacts on both marine ecosystems and human health. […]
Chenghui Jiang, a fourth-year PhD candidate in Dr. Lauren Aleksunes’ laboratory, completed a highly competitive 12-week internship this summer in the Pharmacokinetics, Dynamics, Metabolism, and Bioanalytics (PDMB) department at Merck & Co., West Point, Pennsylvania. During this experience, she advanced her research, gained hands-on training with innovative techniques and state-of-the-art instrumentation, and aimed at improving […]
