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.
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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).
Since it launched in 2019, the Biomedical Engineering Co-operative Education program has been meeting the experiential learning needs of students wishing to pursue careers in industry. This unique program allows BME undergraduates to complete a six-month, paid co-op during their junior year with world-class industry partners.
Biomedical engineering student Dylan Sadiq speaks with President Jonathan Holloway about his path to Rutgers and his long history as a problem solver.
Sonal Gahlawat, a PhD student in Biomedical Engineering, has been awarded the 2022 Chancellor-Provost's Graduate Student Leadership Award.
Meat grown in a lab is ‘not as far away as you may think,’ according to Rutgers researchers Yong Mao and Joseph Freeman