2025 Edition, Issue #2

Welcome to our Cancer Prevention and Control (CPC) semiannual newsletter. The goal in producing this newsletter is to keep our members informed and involved. We are highlighting opportunities for collaborations, new funding opportunities, new grants and promotions, new members, and upcoming seminars and events. We always welcome your suggestions and contributions for future issues. Past issues of the CPC Newsletter can be found online here at the Rutgers Cancer Institute's website.

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Rutgers Cancer Prevention and Population Research

Welcome New Members!

Tawakalitu Oseni, MD, MPH

Associate Professor​

General Surgery

Surgical Oncology​

Rutgers New Jersey Medical

School​

 

Dr. Oseni's research Interests include: Predictors of cPR in AA women with TNBC​, Stratification of high-risk DCIS​ and Breast cancer risk assessment​.

 

Min-Jeong Yang, PhD

Assistant Professor

Institute for Nicotine and Tobacco Studies

Health Behavior, Society, and Policy 

Rutgers School of Public Health  



Dr. Yang’s research interests include: Developing and evaluating novel mHealth smoking cessation interventions informed by cognitive-behavioral theories of addiction and mindfulness-based approaches, utilizing both qualitative and quantitative methods. 



Save-The-Date


2025 CPC Annual Retreat 


Monday, November 17, 2025  

12:00 - 4:00 pm   


Rutgers Cancer Institute

195 Little Albany Street

Auditorium A

New Brunswick, NJ 08901


CPC Program Seminars


Hosts: Elisa Bandera, MD, PhD and Carolyn Heckman, PhD 


Click the registration link below to pre-register for each of the following CPC seminars.

Tuesday, July 15, 2025  

 3:00 - 4:00 pm  

  

Min-Jeong Yang, PhD

Rutgers Institute for Nicotine & Tobacco Studies

Health Behavior, Society & Policy

Rutgers School of Public Health


Title: TBD

Tuesday, September 16, 2025

3:00 - 4:00 pm


Angela Starkweather, PhD, ACNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN

Dean and Professor

Division of Nursing Science

Rutgers School of Nursing


Title: TBD


Tuesday, December 16, 2025

3:00 - 4:00 pm


 Soko Setoguchi, MD, DrPH

Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology 

Rutgers Robert Wood Medical School 

Rutgers School of Public Health


Hari S. Iyer, ScD MPH

Assistant Professor, 

Section of Cancer Epidemiology and Health Outcomes

Rutgers Cancer Institute

Director, Geospatial Data Hub 

Center for Climate Health and Healthcare


Benjamin Bates, MD

Instructor of Medicine and Epidemiology

Division of General Internal Medicine, Rutgers Health

Rutgers Institute for Health

Rutgers Cancer Institute 


Title: TBD

Rutgers Cancer Institute Grand Rounds and Distinguished Lecture Series

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

  4:00 - 5:00 pm  


     Robert A. Winn, MD

  Director and Lipman Chair in Oncology

Senior Associate Dean for Cancer Innovation

Professor of Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine

         VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center VCU

School of Medicine, Richmond VA

Title: TBD


Host: Sharon Manne, PhD (CPC)

Upcoming Professional Events and Conferences 

18th AACR Conference on The Science of Cancer Health Disparities

September 18–21, 2025 - (Baltimore, MD)

Abstract Submission deadline: June 24, 2025

For more information, click here


Rutgers Cancer Institute-Ludwig Princeton Branch Annual Cancer Research Symposium

October 16, 2025 - (Princeton, NJ)

Abstract Submission deadline: August 31, 2025

For more information, click here


18th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health

December 14-17, 2025 - (National Harbor, MD)

Abstract Submission Deadline: July 17, 2025, at 5:00 pm (ET)

For more information, click here

Grants Awarded

Grant Awards:



2025- 2029. Mary Hrywna, PhD, MPH (MPI)                               

Title: "Evaluating implementation of Tobacco 21 laws in the U.S.”                        

Sponsor: National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities                           

Grant #: 2R01CA231139-06  


2025-2030. Ollie Ganz, DrPH, MSPH (MPI), Jessie Jensen, PhD (MPI)

Title: “Advancing the Science on the Impact of Cigar Package Quantity on Cigar Use Behaviors”

Sponsor: NCI

Grant #: 1R01CA297784-01  


2025-2029. Olivia Wackowski, PhD (MPI), Michelle Jeong, PhD (MPI)                                     

Title: "Prevalence and Effects of “Natural” Descriptors on Cigar Packaging"                             

Sponsor: NCI                                

Grant #: 1R01CA292455-01A1  


2025-2029. Olivia Wackowski, PhD (MPI)                                   

Title: "Evaluating Population-Based Strategies for Rural Smoking Cessation”                        

Sponsor: National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities                           

Grant #: 1R01MD020559-01  

Congratulations to CPC Members


Katie Devine, PhD, MPH, was elected Fellow of the Society of Behavioral Medicine in March 2025.


Pamela Ohman Strickland, PhD, was honored with the 2024–25 Warren I. Susman Award for Excellence in Teaching as part of the Faculty Excellence Awards, presented in April 2025.


Shawna Hudson, PhD, FSBM, is the recipient of the EJI Excellence in Medicine Award, titled Peter W. Rodino, Jr. Citizen’s Award, East Brunswick, New Jersey. May 7, 2025. For more information, click here.


Sara Heinert, PhD, MPH, serves on the national Comprehensive Oncologic Emergencies Research Network (CONCERN) committee and as Chair of the Dissemination and Implementation Science Workgroup.


Christina Amaro, PhDStefanie Gratale, PhD, MPA, and Chaelin Ra, PhD, have been promoted to Assistant Professor, effective July 1, 2025.

Kathryn Greene, PhD, has been promoted to Distinguished Professor, effective July 1, 2025.


Dena O'Malley, PhD, MSW, has been promoted to Associate Professor, effective July 1, 2025.


Maria Venetis, PhD, has been promoted to Professor, effective July 1, 2025

Past Presentations

National and International Presentations

Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) Annual Meeting

March 12-15, 2025 - New Orleans, LA


Please click here and search Rutgers to view all the presentations.


Congratulations to:

Charity Ntansah, PhD, MPH (Postdoctoral Fellow), received a SRNT 2025 Health Equity Travel Scholarship

And

Olivia Wackowski, PhD, MPH, was named a 2025 SRNT Fellow.  

Faculty, Staff, and Mentees at the SRNT.

Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM) 46th Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions

March 26-29, 2025 - San Francisco, CA


Katie Darabos, PhD, "Neighborhood economic and built environment: Associations with cancer risk health behaviors among healthy young adults" and "Illness perceptions and causal attributions among adolescents and young adults with cancer: Relationships with psychological and psychosocial outcomes."


Kelly Kohler, PhD, MSPH,Stigma, Resilience, and Cancer in Older Gay Men Living with HIV” and “Stigma and Resilience in Older Adults Living with HIV: The GOLD Studies."


Kristine Levonyan-Radloff, MS, “Recruitment and retention of young adult cancer survivors in a RCT of Bright IDEAS-Young Adults, a problem-solving skills training intervention."


Alexis Shaefer, MPH, “Evaluating non-registry recruitment strategies for a digital intervention: A comparison of method effectiveness."

Left to Right: Katie Devine received the SBM Fellow Award, Katie Darabos, Sharon Manne, and Alexis Shaefer.

American Society of Preventive Oncology (ASPO) 48th Annual Meeting

April 6-8, 2025 - Philadelphia, PA


Anita Kinney, RN, PhD, FAAN, FABMR, served as ASPO president and gave the 2025 Presidential Address at The Annual American Society of Preventive Oncology Annual Meeting. She was a Co-Moderator for “New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Science in Cancer Prevention and Intervention."


Evelyn Arana, DrPH, “Effects of Tai Chi Qigong on Sleep Quality in Older Male Cancer Survivors: Secondary Analysis of a 3-Arm Randomized Controlled Trial” at the 49th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Preventive Oncology in Philadelphia, PA, April 6–8, 2025. Dr. Arana's RUYES mentee, Jonathan Julian delivered an oral presentation, "Barriers and Facilitators to Mammography Utilization Among Hispanic Women with Intellectual Disabilities."


Carolyn Heckman, PhD, served as Co-Chair of the ASPO Executive Committee and participated in multiple roles, including moderating the session, "Unprecedented and Uncertain Times: A Moderated Discussion," and delivering presentations on "The Current State of Chemoprevention: From Biology to the Community" and "Cost-Consequence Analysis of Indoor Tanning Regulation in the United States."


Kelly Kohler, PhD, MSPH, “Barriers and Facilitators of Timely Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment in Botswana” and “Assessing Geospatial Barriers for Breast Cancer Services at a Referral Hospital in Mwanza, Tanzania."


Bo Qin, PhD, was an invited panelist for the "Early Career Session: Strategies for Navigating Team Science and MPI grants". Her mentee, Amogh Kudva, a second year medical student at RWJMS, gave a presentation, "Lifestyle Patterns and Sleep Disturbance in a Population-Based Cohort of Black Breast Cancer Survivors" for the Best of ASPO Session 7 – Lifestyle and Survivorship.  


Samuel Tundealao, BDS, MPH, (Mentor: Anita Kinney, RN, PhD, FAAN, FABMR) “Project HERO: A Randomized Trial of Tai Chi Qigong Versus Intensity-Matched Exercise and Usual Care for Fatigue in Older Male Cancer Survivors” at the Best of ASPO Session 7 - Lifestyle and Survivorship.


Tengteng Wang, PhD, MSPH, MBBS, “Ultra-Processed Foods Consumption and Mortality Following Breast Cancer Diagnosis in Black Women”, at the 2025 ASPO Annual Meeting. Dr. Wang also served as Co-Chair for the Early Career Special Interest Group Session and was a Planning Committee Member and Faculty Mentor for New Investigators Workshop at the 49th ASPO Conference.

Left to Right: Tengteng Wang, Bo (Bonnie) Qin, Samuel Tundealao, Amogh Kudva, Elisa Bandera and Anita Kinney.

Left to right: Jonathan Julian, Evelyn Arana, Maryum Mirza, Anna Mitarotondo, Tara Friebel, Kelly Kohler, Rachel Wagner, Amogh Kudva, and Bo (Bonnie) Qin.

Faculty, Staff, and Mentees at Dinner.

AACR Annual Meeting 2025

April 25-30, 2025 - Chicago, IL


Elisa V. Bandera, MD, PhD, "Predictors of receipt of guideline-concordant chemotherapy among ovarian cancer patients in the Kaiser Permanente Research on Ovarian Cancer Survival (KPROCS) Study."


Sara Heinert, PhD, MPH, " Who falls through the cracks?: Characteristics of women successfully and unsuccessfully navigated to breast cancer screening from the emergency department" and "Patient acceptability of human papillomavirus (HPV) self-sampling for cervical cancer screening to reach under-screened women who present to the emergency department."


Hari Iyer, ScD, was an invited speaker to the AACR “Linking the Environment to Cancer: Using Causal Inference Tools” / Panelist with Dr. Trang VoPham (chair) and Dr. Jaime E. Hart on Environmental Exposures for Cancer Population Sciences Research. 


Bo Qin, PhD, "Lifestyle patterns and mortality in a population-based cohort of Black breast cancer survivors"


Tengteng Wang, PhD, MSPH, MBBS, “Blood Microbiome, Circulating Tumor Cells, and Survival in Black and White women with Metastatic Breast Cancer”, and “Tumor Tissue Microbiome in the High-Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer: A Pilot Investigation within the African American Cancer Epidemiology Study."


Nur Zeinomar, PhD, “Self-reported Experiences of Discrimination and Inflammatory-related Biomarkers among Black Breast Cancer Survivors."

Bo (Bonnie) Qin and Tengteng Wang

American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting

May 30-June 3, 2025 - Chicago, IL


Katie Darabos, PhD, "A longitudinal analysis of social networks and patient-reported outcomes among young adult cancer survivors."


Katie Devine, PhD, MPH, "Results of a multisite randomized trial of Bright IDEAS-Young Adults: Efficacy of problem-solving skills training on distress and health-related quality of life.”

Yonaira Rivera, PhD, MPH, "Contextualizing health (mis)information engagement and utilization among Latino/a/x social media users” at Northwestern University School of Communication, Chicago, IL, February 5, 2025.


Anusha Ramji, MS, (Mentor: Katie Devine, PhD) “Examination of Novel Predictors of Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms (PTSS) in Childhood Cancer Survivors”, at the 96th Eastern Psychological Association (EPA) Annual Meeting, Marriott Marquis Hotel (at Times Square), New York, NY, March 6-8, 2025.

Christina Amaro, PhD, “Shaping the Future: Building Pediatric Psychology Labs in University Settings Symposium” at the Society of Pediatric Psychology Annual Conference, Phoenix, AZ. April 4, 2025. “Development of Snooze 2-Quit: A novel smoking cessation app for socioeconomically disadvantaged individuals” at the Scientific Meeting of American Academy of Health Behavior, San Diego, CA. March 18, 2025. “Needs of siblings of Childhood, Adolescent, and Young Adult (CAYA) cancer survivors and the association with psychosocial functioning” at the American Psychosocial Oncology Society 22nd Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, March 5-7, 2025.


Hari Iyer, ScD, “A comparison of racial and socioeconomic disparities in prostate cancer-specific mortality in the Veterans Administration to other health systems.” 2025 Annual Meeting of the Urological Society for American Veterans, Annual Meeting of the American Urological Association, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 26-29, 2025.

Tengteng Wang, PhD, MSPH, MBBS, Career talk for U.S. academic job searching” at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 2025 Channing Division of Network Medicine Mentoring Seminar Series, Boston, MA, March 2025. Dr. Wang also presented a talk titled “Hormonal/reproductive factors and gut microbiome in US women: Findings from a large epidemiological study”. Translational Microbiome Conference, Boston, MA, April 11, 2025. “Microbiome and Precision Breast Cancer Prevention and Control” at the Food as Medicine Symposium, George Washington University, May 2, 2025.


Bo Qin, PhD, was invited to speak at the University of Nebraska Medical Center Cancer Prevention and Control Program Obesity and Nutrition Symposium, Omaha, NE. May 30, 2025. She was an invited speaker and panelist for the American Society of Preventive Oncology (ASPO) Behavior Science and Health Communication SIG Webinar, “Strategies to surf the shifting sands of grant funding: Tips from successful federal and non-federal grant-funded researchers”. Dr. Qin's talk, “Navigating the ACS Grant Application: Tips from Experience”, May 8, 2025.

Kathryn Greene, PhD, presented a double workshop session, “Engaging with Community(ies): Lessons learned, challenges, and resolving "sticky" issues” at the Biennial D.C. Health Communication Conference (DCHC), Herndon, VA. May 1-2, 2025. Dr. Greene also facilitated a Roundtable Fellows session, “Research program development and sustainability” at the International Communication Conference. Denver, CO, June 12-16, 2025.

Presentations in New Jersey


Hari Iyer, ScD, “STRIDE Dashboard for Faculty Research Dissemination” with Daniel Pearson, Rutgers CHeCOE Community Advisory Board, March 5, 2025 (virtual).


Katie Devine, PhD, MPH, "From Googling to Healing: Technology’s Role in Cancer Care for the Digital Generation” at the Crossroads4Hope 2025 Annual Conference on Cancer: Empowering Adolescent and Young Adult Advocates, New Brunswick, NJ, March 21, 2025


Tengteng Wang, PhD, MSPH, MBBS, “Systematic Review of Gut Microbiome and Breast Cancer Development”, Rutgers Microbiome University Program Annual Retreat, March 26, 2025.


Evelyn Arana, DrPH,Culturally And Linguistically Appropriate Behavioral Interventions For Hispanic Cancer Survivors With Sleep Disturbance” at the Rutgers Behavioral Health Equity Research Ideation Forum in Piscataway, NJ, May 6, 2025.


Anusha Ramji, MS, (Mentor: Katie Devine, PhD) “I want to help out people in need: a qualitative exploration of how cancer has impacted educational and career goals of childhood cancer survivors” at the Department of Pediatrics at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, May 14, 2025.

 CPC Members' Involvement in Public Health Policy  

Monica D'Arcy, PhD, was featured in a June 13, 2025, Physician's Weekly article titled “COPD, GERD Tied to Elevated Lung Cancer Risk Among Never-Smokers." For more information, click here

Recent Trainee Seminars

April 9, 2025


Speaker: Meredith Collins, PhD


"Leveraging entertainment media narratives to empower supportive conversations between young adulty cancer survivors and their friends."


Rutgers Cancer Institute 

195 Little Albany Street

Auditorium B


Host: Katie Devine, PhD, MPH (CPC)

Past Events

The Cancer Health Equity Center of Excellence (CHE) Research Symposium was held on April 22, 2025, at the Rutgers Cancer Institute. 


Anita Kinney, RN, PhD, FAAN, FABMR, “CHECoE Progress Updates.”

The Annual Retreat on Cancer Research in New Jersey was organized by the Rutgers Cancer Institute and the New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ, May 22, 2025


Anusha Ramji, MS, (Mentor: Katie Devine, PhD) “Job Experiences Among Childhood Cancer Survivors.”


Maria Venetis, PhD, “Predictors of transition readiness: Perspectives of survivors and parents.”

Past CPC Program Monthly Meetings

Tuesday, January 21, 2025


Hari Iyer, ScD, MPH 

Assistant Professor

Division of Medical Oncology 

Section of Cancer Epidemiology and Health Outcomes 

Rutgers Cancer Institute 

&

Kelly Kohler, PhD, MSPH 

Assistant Professor 

Department of Health Behavior, Society & Policy

School of Public Health 

Rutgers Cancer Institute


Special Topic: "Implementation Science and Epidemiology: collaborating for

public health evidence and impact."


Co-Hosted by: Rutgers Cancer Institute Implementation Science Working Group

Tuesday, February 18, 2025


Jina Huh-Yoo, PhD 

Associate Professor of Computer Science 

Stevens Institute of Technology


"Conversation-Based Artificial Intelligence Systems for Caregiving"

Tuesday, March 18, 2025


Carolyn E. Sartor, PhD 

Associate Professor of Psychiatry 

Rutgers Institute for Health

Health Care Policy and Ageing Research

   Robert Wood Johnson Medical School 


"Exploring Mechanisms Underlying Variation by Race/ethnicity in Substance Use Development to Inform Interventions."

Monday, April 14, 2025



Shawna Hudson, PhD, FSBM  

Professor and Chief Research Division 

Department of Family Medicine and Community Health 

Robert Wood Johnson Medical School 



Ethan Halm, PhD 

Professor and Vice Chancellor 

Division of General Internal Medicine Department of Medicine 

Robert Wood Johnson Medical School  


“Rutgers Health Initiatives for Learning Health System, Population Health and Implementation Science”

Tuesday, May 20, 2025


Joel Cantor, ScD

Distinguished Professor of Public Policy

Director of Center for State Health Policy

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey


“New Data for New Jersey: Update on the NJHealth Study and Integrated Population Health Data (iPHD) Project”



Tuesday, June 17, 2025  

 3:00 - 4:00 pm  

  

Sarah J. Scharf, DrPH, MPH 

Executive Director

Cancer Health Equity Center of Excellence

Rutgers Cancer Institute

Deputy Director, ScreenNJ

&

Daniel Pearson, MA

Manager, Catchment Data & Surveillance

Cancer Health Equity Center of Excellence

Rutgers Cancer Institute


"Aligning with Community Needs: New Catchment Area Priorities and Collaborative Opportunities”

Cancer Health Equity Center of Excellence- Distinguished Lecture Series

Wednesday, May 21, 2025


Yamilé Molina, MS, MPH, PhD

Associate Professor

Division of Community Health Sciences

School of Public Health

Faculty Affiliate, Center for Research on Women and Gender


"The Power of Network: Interventions to Address Cancer Health Disparities Cancer"


Host: Anita Kinney, PhD, RN, FAAN, FABMR (CPC)


Wednesday, April 28, 2025


Janice Krieger, PhD

Professor, Clinical Translational Science

Associate Director, Community Outreach and Engagement

Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center - Florida


"Cancer communication, community, and co-design: Utilizing AI to enhance precision messaging for patients and families"


Host: Anita Kinney, PhD, RN, FAAN, FABMR (CPC)


Recent Grand Rounds and Distinguished Lectures

Wednesday, June 4, 2025


Michael P. Pignone, MD, MPH

Rebecca and John Kirkland Distinguished Professor of Medicine

Professor in Population Health Sciences

Duke Cancer Institute

Duke University School of Medicine


“Achieving Equity in Cancer Screening and Prevention”


Host: Sharon Manne, PhD (CPC)

Wednesday, February 19, 2025   

      

Julie R. Palmer, ScD

Karin Grunebaum Professor in Cancer Research 

Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine 

Director, Slone Epidemiology Center

Co-Director, BU-BMC Cancer Center

              

"Barriers to Early Detection of Breast Cancer in Black Women: Findings from the Black Women's Health Study"


Host: Elisa Bandera, MD, PhD (CPC)

Cancer Outreach and Engagement  

         

STRIDE and Cancer InFocus: Seeking information related to our catchment area’s cancer burden, behavioral and environmental risk factors, and demographics? The STRIDE dashboard and the Cancer InFocus platform allows you to explore and extract this information by integrating a number of public data sources into one central hub for your use. To access STRIDE and Cancer InFocus, please visit:


Engaging with Community Partners: COE’s Community Science Café and the ScreenNJ Program offer excellent opportunities for CPC members to share their research with community partners or to seek input from the community on their research projects. Submit requests here to seek these services:


CHECoE Research Support Request Form:

This new service request form helps us understand your needs to provide timely, tailored support. 

Your input aids in resource coordination, request tracking, and advancing cancer health equity.

Click here to start your request. 

Community Dialogue Guide: Click here

Community Outreach and Engagement

Rapid Grant/Protocol Review



Community Outreach and Engagement (COE) is fully committed to supporting research efforts at Rutgers Cancer Institute and across the state of New Jersey. We focus on reducing cancer health disparities by fostering basic, clinical, and population cancer research that is relevant to our catchment area. COE offers many catchment area, outreach and data-related support services, including, but not limited to:


  • Cancer Registry Data (Rutgers Cancer Institute and RWJBarnabas affiliates)
  • Catchment Area Data Requests (New Jersey)
  • Rapid Grant/Protocol Review by Citizen Scientists (Community Engagement Café)
  • Assistance with Study Recruitment
  • Identifying Study Sites
  • Educational Workshops and Training
  • Connecting Communities with Research Advisory Boards
  • Dissemination Strategies


COE - Rapid Grant/Protocol Review by Citizen Scientists Community Engagement Café

More to Know


The following opportunities are available through Division of Cancer Prevention (DCP):


  • Notice of Special Interest: National Cancer Institute Supports Applications for the Mentored Research Scientist Development Awards (K01) Within the Mission of the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences. Click Here for more information.

Cancer Prevention and Outcomes Data Support Shared Resource



The Cancer Prevention and Outcomes Data Support (CPODS) Shared Resource works with members to provide expertise and technical support in the following areas:


1. Participant Recruitment and Tracking

  • Assistance with the identification of target sample populations and cases
  • Participant recruitment (via mail, email, SMS, web-based, in-person)
  • Bilingual staff are available for the recruitment of Spanish-speaking participants
  • Customizable study databases for tracking of participant recruitment and retention

 

2. Survey Data Collection and Management

  • Electronic data collection (e.g., mobile and online surveys)
  • Paper survey design and automated scanning to facilitate data entry and processing
  • Coordination of translation of surveys and multi-lingual data collection

 

3. Qualitative Data Collection, Management, and Analysis

  • In-person, telephone, or web-based data collection of focus groups, key informants, and depth interviews
  • Coordination of translation and transcription of audio recordings
  • Qualitative coding, preparation of themes, and analysis using Atlas software


For more information and to discuss your project needs, please reach out to Carolina LozadaShared Resource Manager at cpods@cinj.rutgers.edu.

Acknowledging Cancer Center Support Grant (CCSG) in Publications

Please acknowledge the Cancer Center Support Grant (CCSG) in publications that resulted from any CCSG support such as: Pilot Award/New Investigator funds, use of Office of Human Research Services (OHRS), and/or use of any supported CPODS. Publications that acknowledge the CCSG must comply with the NIH Public Access Policy

News to share? We invite you to send your news and updates to be considered for publication in an upcoming issue of The CPC Newsletter.



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