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NEWS, EVENTS, and DEADLINES
October 15, 2025
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Introducing the Second Cohort
NJ ACTS congratulates the second cohort of Learning Health System Science Scholars as part of the Learning Health System Scientist Training and Research Center of New Jersey (LHS STAR NJ).
The second cohort consists of 9 Learning Health System Scholars:
Pathway 1:
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Christine Ramdin, PhD, MSc, RBHS Instructor, New Jersey Medical School
Pathway 2:
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Benjamin Bates, MD, Assistant Professor, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
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Helen Chen, PhD, MSN, Assistant Professor, Rutgers School of Nursing
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Aliza Leiser, MD, Associate Professor, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School/Rutgers Cancer Institute
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John Palatucci, PhD, MPA, Assistant Research Professor, Rutgers Center for State Health Policy
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Maxine Strickland, DMD, MPH, Associate Professor, Rutgers School of Dental Medicine
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Ana Tergas, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
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Min-Jeong Yang, PhD, Assistant Professor, Rutgers School of Public Health
Pathway 3:
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Loletha Johnson, MSN, Program Manager, New Jersey Department of Health
The LHS Scholars Training Program aims to cultivate a new generation of leaders in Learning Health Systems (LHS) Science by providing education, training, mentorship, and career development opportunities tailored to the professional interests of embedded investigators, clinicians, and health system personnel. Read More
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Princeton Precision Health
2025 Seminar Series
Princeton Precision Health is a cross-cutting initiative that uses AI and data science to transform human health at all levels, from molecular to social to environmental, with the goal of enacting smart policy and evidence-based clinical practice.
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Find out what impact your research or innovation could have in solving real-world problems by attending the Novus I-Corps program, a half-day introduction to I-Corps.
- November 5, 11:15 am - 3:15 pm
- Rutgers University - Camden Campus Student Center 326 Penn Street Multipurpose Room Camden, NJ 08102
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Breakthrough Blood Test for Asthma
A team of scientists at Rutgers Health, including senior study author Reynold Panettieri, has discovered that a simple blood test could diagnose asthma and determine its severity, a breakthrough that could transform how the disease is identified and monitored. Read More
Dr. Panettieri is the Vice Chancellor for Translational Medicine at Rutgers and the Director of NJ ACTS.
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Do You Want Additional Professional Credentials?
Take Advantage of the NJ ACTS Badge Program
NJ ACTS enthusiastically supports the development of new skills and expertise by developing and offering the research workforce a variety of digital badges. Badges can demonstrate mastery of materials and competence in a set of skills and can help prepare the earner for new career opportunities.
All NJ ACTS Badges are available at: https://njacts.rbhs.rutgers.edu/education-training/badges/
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Community Scientist Program
The Community Scientist Program is a training and education program designed to engage the community in research by fostering partnerships between community members and investigators. It is designed to provide community-friendly training in ethics and responsible conduct of research to community members, as well as provide opportunities for networking with researchers and other community scientists. The program is comprised of two components: (1) CIRTification: Community Involvement in Research Training and (2) expert-led Community Conversations.
Community Conversations will be 1.5 hours and conducted via Zoom.
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Rutgers Center for Biomedical Informatics and Health AI
Request for Applications for projects for its 2026 Summer Internship Program.
The internship, which will run from June 1 – July 31, 2026, is designed to introduce undergraduate and MS Rutgers students to hands-on projects focused on biomedical informatics and health AI and careers in biomedical data science and AI in biomedicine.
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Key Dates:
Letter of Intent Deadline: October 27
Pre-selection Notification: December 1, 2025
Application Deadline: January 21, 2026
Award Notification: March 6, 2026
Earliest Start Date: April/May, 2026 (dependent on regulatory approvals)
| | NCATS, NIH, and Federal News and Events | | |
Applications are now being accepted for the AIM-AHEAD & NCATS Health Data Science Training Program Class of 2026.
- Trainees receive 6 months of online training - from the basics of artificial intelligence and machine learning, to launching a first project using the real-world health data in the N3C.
- Online courses, weekly live classes, project guidance, and 1:1 mentorship.
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Trainees must be able to commit 8-10 hours/week to training and receive an $8000 stipend and $2000 travel allowance to present their work at the AIM-AHEAD Annual Meeting in July 2026. Read More
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Collaboration Webinars from the
Hear from CTSA TIN experts on trial-related topics to improve your project
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Standard Agreements: Leveraging Template Agreements to Accelerate Clinical Trial Contracting
November 3
12 - 1 pm
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Decentralized Trial Design
December 1
12 - 1 pm
Register
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NJ ACTS Publication Highlights
Suicide within 1 year of non-fatal overdose: Risk factors and risk reduction with medications for opioid use disorder. Molly A Nowels, Paul R Duberstein, Stephen Crystal, Peter Treitler, Jennifer Miles, Mark Olfson, Hillary Samples. General Hospital Psychiatry. 2023 Nov 4:86:24-32. doi: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2023.11.003. Online ahead of print.
Implementation of an office-based addiction treatment model for Medicaid enrollees: A mixed methods study. Peter Treitler, Michael Enich, Cadence Bowden, Anais Mahone, James Lloyd, Stephen Crystal. Journal Of Substance Use & Addiction Treatment. 2024 Jan:156:209212. doi: 10.1016/j.josat.2023.209212. Epub 2023 Nov 5.
| | Rare Diseases Are Not Rare - Submissions are due by January 2, 2026. Learn more about the Challenge Prize Competition and how to submit an entry. | |
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.
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This newsletter is supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under award number UM1TR004789 to Rutgers University. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not represent the official views of the NIH.
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