Upcoming NJ ACTS, Rutgers, Princeton and NJIT Events

The 4 Pillars of Successful Mentorship Training

Good communication, aligning expectations, fostering independence, and promoting professional development

M. Maral Mouradian, MD

Vice Chancellor for Faculty Development

Anita Siu, PharmD

Clinical Professor, Director of Faculty Mentoring

Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy

Andrew Gow, PhD

Professor

Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy

November 14, 2022

8 am - 12 pm

Busch Student Center

International Lounge

604 Bartholomew Rd

Piscataway, NJ

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NJ ACTS Special Populations Core

NJ ACTS Clinical Research Management

Collaborative Training Series

Interested in learning ways to enhance diversity in your studies?

Diversity and Inclusion in Site Identification (Part I)

November 16, 2022

5 pm - 6:30 pm

Diversity and Inclusion in Site Identification (Part II)

January 25, 2022

5 pm - 6:30 pm

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NJ ACTS Biostatistics Epidemiology Research Design Core

Workshop Series

Applied Survival Analysis for Biomedical Researchers

Target Audience: Biomedical researchers who work with survival data, including faculty members, students, post-docs, and others who need to work with this type of data. All are welcome.

Presented by:

Dirk Moore, PhD

Associate Professor of Biostatistics

Rutgers University and the Cancer Institute of New Jersey

This webinar will cover the main principles of survival analysis and give examples of how it is applied to biomedical research problems. Survival data, where the primary outcome is time to death or other specific event, arise in many areas of biomedical research, including clinical trials, epidemiological studies, and studies of animals.

November 17, 2022

1 pm

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Please join us for a screening of

The Invisible Extinction

featuring Rutgers’ microbiologists Martin Blaser and Gloria Dominguez-Bello.

Tuesday, November 29

5:00 p.m.

Rutgers’ microbiologists Martin Blaser and Gloria Dominguez-Bello are subjects of this new documentary examining their decades-long research on the link between our bodies’ microbiome – the bacteria, fungi, and viruses that help us digest food and keep us healthy – and diseases like diabetes, asthma, and autism.

The Invisible Extinction follows Blaser, director of the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine at Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, and Dominguez-Bello, the Henry Rutgers Professor of Microbiome and Health at the Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, as they travel the world in search of answers.

 A Q&A with Drs. Blaser and Dominguez-Bello and filmmakers will follow the screening.

Main Lecture Hall, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Research Tower, 675 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ

Reception to follow in the Great Hall

RSVP by November 23rd

NJ ACTS Team Science in Action

Team Science Across the NJ ACTS Consortium

Virtual Seminar Series

This bi-monthly university-wide virtual seminar series features leaders and team members of interdisciplinary research projects taking place within the NJ ACTS consortium to explore how complex research teams are formed, operated, and achieve success.

Fragile Families Third Generation (FFG3):

An Intergenerational U.S. Birth Cohort Study

(Watch on YouTube)

The next event in the series will be:

The Corona Cohort

Thursday Dec. 8

(These events are not live - they are recorded and posted on the the Team Science YouTube Playlist). 

NJ ACTS Services

NJ ACTS Community Engagement Virtual Salons (CEVS)

CEVS bring researchers together with patients, community members, and health care stakeholders to actively participate in cross-talk. It provides a forum for generating research questions, identifying evidence gaps, and defining outcomes meaningful to patients. To see a CEVS in action, take a look at the summary video featured below.

To see a CEVS in action, take a look at the summary videos featured here.

If you're interested in working with the Community Engagement Core, 

click here to learn more.

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Translational Research Needs Assessment Survey

HELP NJ ACTS by Completing a Quick Survey!

The NJ ACTS team is conducting a needs assessment of barriers researchers commonly encounter while conducting their translational research and at what stage in the process. We hope to help establish feasible institutional solutions and initiatives for overcoming these barriers.

This survey should take approximately 5-10 minutes to complete. Upon completion, participants can enter a raffle for a $25 Starbucks gift card.

Translational Research Needs Assessment Survey

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact sm2097@scarletmail.rutgers.edu or ag954@rbhs.rutgers.edu.

Please feel free to share this survey with other investigators at your institution and within your research community. 

CTSA News and Events

National Center for Advancing Translational Science (NCATS)

New N3C Effort to Speed COVID-19 Public Health Answers

NCATS just launched the N3C Public Health Answers to Speed Tractable Results (PHASTR), a new effort to deliver fast, actionable analyses on pressing COVID-19 questions.

Researchers can submit proposals to use electronic health record data from the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) to answer important public health questions. NCATS will publish results from the analyses on the N3C Public Health Dashboards and disseminate them to public health officials.

Effects of welfare reform on household food insecurity across generations. Corman H, Dhaval DM, Schwartz-Soicher O, Reichman NE. Econ Human Biol 2022 Apr;45:101101. DOI:10.1016/j.ehb.2021.101101. Epub 2021 Dec 27. PMID: 34995949.

Steroid-induced fibroblast growth factors drive an epithelial-mesenchymal inflammatory axis in severe asthma. Guidi R, Xu D, Choy DF, Ramalingam TR, Lee WP, Modrusan Z, Liang Y, Marsters S, Ashkenazi A, Huynh A, Mills J, Flanagan S, Hambro S, Nunez V, Leong L, Cook A, Tran TH, Austin CD, Cao Y, Clarke C, Panettieri RA Jr, Koziol-White C, Jester WF Jr, Wang F, Wilson MS.Sci Transl Med. 2022 Apr 20;14(641):eabl8146. PMID: 35442706. DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abl8146 Epub 2022 Apr 20.

The Princeton Pulse Podcast - A new podcast exploring the power and possibilities of evidence-informed health policy hosted by Heather Howard, professor of the practice and former New Jersey Commissioner of Health and Senior Services. Available on the CHW website, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other podcast platforms.

Translational Science 2023 - is looking for new ways to innovate translational science for research. Submissions are now open for poster and scientific session proposals! 

Propelus I-Corps Program - Rolling applications for a 4-week program for researchers to explore the commercial potential for their innovations through Customer Discovery. Accepted teams are awarded a $3,000 NSF grant which makes them eligible to get follow-on NSF funding. https://icorpsnortheasthub.org/

Build a Successful Collaboration with NJ ACTS Team Science - The Team Science Core offers general and project-specific consultations on building and maintaining successful research teams and collaborations. To set up a consultation, please fill out the intake form. Read more about the Team Science Core.