Adam Gormley has been awarded a Presidential Fellowship for Teaching Excellence for the academic year 2022-2023 as one of the university's most distinguished young faculty members.
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Professor Li Cai has been awarded a HealthAdvance award for $150,000 for his project, entitled “Gsx1 gene therapy for spinal cord injury.”
Engineering student, and Potawatomi Nation citizen, Katie Lynch has been an indigenous advocate at Rutgers and hopes to do the same for the biomedical field after graduation.
The School of Engineering Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) has received an unrestricted gift from the Gerald B. Shreiber (GBS) Foundation.
PhD student Eugene Cheong has been awarded a $60,000 two-year fellowship from the New Jersey Commission on Spinal Cord Research. His research will focus on the delivery of stabilized enzyme for the treatment of spinal cord injuries.
Professors Mark Pierce and Prabhas Moghe were awarded a 1-year, $154,769 grant to advance a novel imaging contrast agent developed at Rutgers toward commercial adoption. The award, from the NIH’s C3i program, will allow the team to develop methods to synthesize infrared light-emitting nanocomposites at commercial scales. The nanocomposites can be used to highlight specific tissues within the body and are expected to find applications in preclinical imaging for drug discovery and in image-guided surgical resection of tumors.
BME graduate student Denise Robles was awarded a two-year pre-doctoral fellowship from the NJ Governor’s Council for Medical Research and Treatment of Autism (NJGCA) for her proposal entitled "Modeling Long-Range Connectivity Deficits in Autism Spectrum Disorders using Cerebral Organoids." Denise is co-advised by graduate program faculty Dr. Jeffrey Zahn and Dr. Zhiping Pang.
Jake Siebert and Robert Rosen each received two-year pre-doctoral fellowships from the New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research (NJCCR).