The Rutgers Association of Toxicology Students (RATS) are excited to congratulate their fellow RATS, Kate Annunziato and L. Cody Smith, Ph.D. on their selection as this year’s Scala Scholars. The Scala award, honoring Dr. Robert A. Scala, is bestowed upon top predoctoral and postdoctoral candidates for their outstanding contributions to the field of […]
Dahea Diana You, PharmD and Justin Schumacher, MS, PharmD received highly competitive travel awards to attend the 38th Annual Meeting of the American College of Toxicology in Palm Springs CA. Diana also received the 2017 Best Poster Presentation Award.
Laura Armstrong, PhD received the Presidential Poster of Distinction Award from the 2017 American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases. This distinction is bestowed upon the top 10% of research posters. At the Liver Meeting in Washington, DC, Laura presented her latest research investigating the ability of acute-phase proteins to protect the livers from […]
The MidAtlantic Society of Toxicology (MASOT) meeting was held on Oct 17, 2017 in Edison, NJ. Rutgers Ph.D. students won the top awards at the meeting. Kyle Saitta was selected as the 2018 awardee for the Student Achievement Award. In addition, the top poster honors were awarded to John Szilagyi (1st Place), Blessy George (2nd […]
This September 2017, postdoctoral fellow Dr. Ukpong Eyo was awarded a K22 Career Transition Award grant titled “Microglial P2Y12 Receptors in Normal Developmental Physiology and Seizures” from the National Institutes of Health. This grant is a follow up to his prior research with the JGPT where he investigated and showed neuroprotective roles in experimental seizures for microglia-neuron […]
Lydia Louis, a PhD candidate in our Public Health program, was recently named a 2018 recipient of a NIH Fellows Award for Research Excellence (FARE). Lydia is a fellow in the Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch (OEEB) at the National Cancer Institute. In the OEEB, she examines the impact of occupational and non-occupational insecticide exposures […]
On Sep 5th, the RATS hosted a dynamic Career Panel that provided an overview of multiple job sectors within toxicology. Five speakers provided highlights of their former and current positions, advice for students, and answered questions from attendees. This networking event strengthened ties of our trainees with local professionals, including JGPT alumni. Katie Sokolowski, […]
Alexa Murray, PhD Candidate was recently selected as a recipient of a 2017-2017 Rutgers Pharmaceutical Research Travel Award. She attended the 2017 Gordon Conference in the Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Toxicity in Andover, NH. Her research investigates n mustard (NM), a cytotoxic alkylating agent, which can cause acute lung injury which progresses to fibrosis. […]
The Graduate Research Fellowship in Toxicology from Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. supports students involved in in vivo toxicology research. Fourth year Pharm.D/Ph.D. candidate Dahea (Diana) You was chosen to be the 2017-2018 recipient of this competitive fellowship. Her research aims to investigate the epigenetic mechanisms regulating efflux transporters and consequently protective properties at the blood-brain barrier. The Fellowship […]
From August 12-18, 2017, six current RATS (Laura Armstrong, Brian Estrella, Ludwik Gorczyca, John Szilagyi, Alexa Murray, and Justin Schumacher) presented their latest research findings at the Gordon Research Conference in Andover, NH. This year’s theme was “Advanced Investigation in Mechanistic Toxicology” and was organized by two JGPT alumni, Drs. Yanan Tian and John Richburg. […]
