NEWS, EVENTS, and DEADLINES

February 6, 2025

NJ ACTS Team Science - Get Involved!

Are you the PI or MPI of a funded multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, or transdisciplinary research project?

The Team Science Core of NJ ACTS hosts a virtual seminar entitled "Team Science Across the NJ ACTS Consortium" that features leaders and team members of multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary research projects taking place within the NJ ACTS consortium to explore how complex research teams are formed, operated, and achieve success.

If you are interested in having your project featured in the series, please let us know by contacting teamscience@rbhs.rutgers.edu.

Participation will allow others to learn from your experiences and will increase the visibility of your project and team.

Watch videos of past seminars on the NJ ACTS Team Science YouTube Playlist

Upcoming NJ ACTS, Rutgers, Princeton and NJIT Events

NJ ACTS Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Research Design (BERD)

Workshop Series

Enhance Prediction of Alzheimer’s Disease with Generative AI

Chenxi Yuan, PhD

Assistant Professor, Informatics

NJIT

Target Audience:

Researchers focusing on longitudinal studies and missing data challenges in medical research.

NJ ACTS Genetically informed Research, Education, And Treatment (GREAT) Core

Listening Session

The GREAT Core supports translational science research capacity through consultation and training on genetically informed research designs and engages the broader community in understanding the role of genetics in health.

Want to learn more about polygenic scoring or how to navigate publicly available genetic data?

We want to hear from you to best serve our community!

Or request a 30-minute consultation.

NJ ACTS GREAT Core

Guest Seminar

Disentangling the genetics of comorbid substance use and depression

Emily Hartwell, PhD

Philadelphia VA Medical Center

University of Pennsylvania

If you would like to schedule a 1-1 meeting during Dr. Hartwell's campus visit, please contact host Dr. Jessica Salvatore at jessica.salvatore@rutgers.edu.

This event is co-sponsored by the Genes, Neurodevelopment, and Addictions Program in the Center for Psychiatric Health and Genomics and the NJACTS Genetically informed Research, Education, and Treatment Core.

Clinical Trials Office

Special Seminar

Principal Investigator Roles and Responsibilities:

A Review of FDA 483's and BIMO Inspection Findings

Gain valuable insights into common compliance pitfalls and best practices to ensure regulatory success. Enhance your understanding and stay inspection-ready!

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Spring Mentor Workshops 2025

Learn how you can offer guidance and advice based on your own experiences. Share insights on academic challenges, career paths, and personal growth. College mentors can create a supportive environment that nurtures the growth and development of their young mentees.

Maximizing

Mentoring

Feb 24

1 pm - 2 pm

Effective Communication

March 11

2 pm - 3 pm

Positive

Mental Health

April 9

11 am - 12 pm

Beck Hall, Room 215, Livingston Campus, Piscataway

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NJ ACTS Grant Writing Training

NJ ACTS Workforce Development Core

Grant Writing Training Success Stories

National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN) Grant Writing Group

Congratulations to Drs. Shiau and Madduri, both of whom received NIH awards based in part on their participation in the NJ ACTS Grant Writing workshops.

Dr. Stephanie Shiau

Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology

Encouraged by her mentor, Dr. Emily Barrett, Dr. Shiau joined the NRMN group to refine her grant writing skills and has been awarded an R01 Grant. Read the Full article.

Dr. Bala Madduri

Postdoctoral Fellow, Rutgers Biomedical Health Sciences

The NRMN group helped Dr. Madduri strengthen her specific aims page for the American Heart Association fellowship, which resulted in a K99/R00 Award. Read the Full Article

NJ ACTS in the News

Showcasing the

NJ ACTS Clinical and Translational Pilot Grant Awardees

NJ ACTS awarded pilot grants to four outstanding projects under its Clinical and Translational Science Pilot Program. We will highlight each one, beginning in this week's newsletter.

Princeton Researchers Studying Dendritic Plasticity in Neuropsychiatric Disorders

Princeton neuroscience researchers Sam Wang, PhD, and Esra Sefik, PhD, were recently awarded a New Jersey Alliance for Clinical and Translational Science (NJ ACTS) pilot grant to investigate how dendrites, the nerve-cell branches that connect neurons, change over time. Their goal is to better understand neurological disorders like schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s disease, in which these dendritic structures often go awry. Read the Full Article from Princeton Neuroscience Institute

Antonina Mitrofanova Receives

Presidential Early Career Award

Antonina Mitrofanova, an associate professor in the Department of Health Informatics and associate dean for research at the Rutgers School of Health Professions, has been awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) – the highest honor granted by the U.S. government to early-career scientists and engineers. Read the Full Article

Dr. Mitrofanova is the Co-Program Director for the NJ ACTS T32 Fellows.

CBS Mornings Health Watch

How Men's Minds and Bodies May Change After They Become Parents - Featuring Kristine Schmitz

Studies have shown that one in 10 dads struggle with postpartum depression and anxiety, but stigma can prevent men from seeking out help.

Watch the Video on YouTube

Dr. Schmitz is an NJ ACTS K12 Scholar.

Scientific Resource

Digital Archive of Protein Structures

Federal science agencies have renewed and increased funding for a world-renowned digital archive of protein structures housed by Rutgers University-New Brunswick, an open-access data resource that has enabled research in everything from agriculture to zoology and has laid the groundwork for Nobel Prize-winning discoveries.

Federal funds totaling $49.4 million will underwrite efforts at the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics (RCSB) Protein Data Bank through 2028. Read the Full Article

Funding Opportunities

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s

Health Policy Research Scholars Program

For Full-Time 2nd Year Doctoral Students

Are you a second-year doctoral student passionate about driving health equity? We strongly encourage applications from nonhealth-related disciplines who are seeking to use policy change to advance population health and health equity.

Learn more and apply today .

Apply by

March 11

Apply

CTSA News and Events

NCATS, NIH, and Federal News and Events

Registration is now open for the FDA-NIH Rare Disease Day — a two-day event co-hosted by NCATS and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration!

Collaboration Webinars from the

Trial Innovation Network

Hear from CTSA TIN experts on trial-related topics to improve your project

Exploring the Information Management Challenges of Clinical and Translational Research Teams, Betsy Rolland PhD, MLIS, MPH

February 19, 2025

12 - 1 pm

REDCap Randomization 2.0: A New Tool to Support Platform, Adaptive, and Decentralized Trials, Jonathan Casey MD, MSc

March 3, 2025

12 - 1 pm

NJ ACTS Publications

NJ ACTS Publication Highlights

Inattentive responding can induce spurious associations between task behaviour and symptom measures. Samuel Zorowitz, Johanne Solis, Yael Niv, Daniel Bennett. Nat Hum Behavior. 2023 Jul 6. doi: 10.1038/s41562-023-01640-7. Online ahead of print.

Confusion and anxiety in between abnormal cervical cancer screening results and colposcopy: “The land of the unknown”. Racquel E Kohler, Jennifer Hemler, Rachel B Wagner, Brittany Sullivan, Myneka Macenat, Erin K Tagai, Suzanne M Miller, Kuang-Yi Wen, Charletta Ayers, Mark H Einstein, Shawna V Hudson. Patient Education and Counseling. 2023 May 23;114:107810. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2023.107810. Online ahead of print.

Click Here for More NJ ACTS Publications

Employment Opportunity - Grants Manager. Princeton University seeks a highly motivated, highly experienced individual to serve as Grants Manager (GM) in the Department of Molecular Biology. This position is fully remote. Job Description and Apply Here

Apply for the Translational Science Interagency Fellowship Program -NCATS jointly sponsors the Translational Science Interagency Fellowship (TSIF) with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to train fellows in translational science and regulatory science. Learn More about the Program

The NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health is soliciting research proposals on women's health in underrepresented, underserved, and underreported (U3) populations. NOT-OD-24-179.

Email njacts@rbhs.rutgers.edu if you intend to submit

Discover what the Clinical and Research Data Warehouse is, what data it contains, where it is housed, the analytic and computing environment, the process for requesting CRDW data, and the services that the CRDW team can provide to researchers. View the Clinical Data Research Warehouse YouTube Video

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NJ ACTS is a partnership between Rutgers, NJIT, Princeton, and RWJ Barnabas Health. NJ ACTS advances clinical and translational science to develop new therapies and treatments and improve population health.

Components

Element B

Administration

Element C1

Workforce Development

Element C2

Community & Stakeholder Engagement

Element D1

*Biostatistics, Epidemiology &

Research Design (BERD)

*Team Science

*Regulatory Knowledge & Support

*Special Populations in Research

*Biomarkers

*Genetically informed Research

Education & Training (GREAT)

*Clinical Trials Office

Element D2

Clinical & Translational Science Pilots

Element D3

Clinical Informatics

Element E1

Clinical & Translational Science Research: Novel Genetic Services Model

Element E2

Clinical & Translational Science Research: Translating Evidence on Opioid Overdose

Additional Components

*Mentored Career Development DEVELOP (K12)

*Predoctoral Training ASCENT (T32)

*Short-Term Research CREST (R25)

Working Groups

*Health Policy in Action

*Dissemination & Implementation Science

*Team Science

*Learning Health System

*Engagement for Impact

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