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NEWS, EVENTS, and DEADLINES
September 9, 2026
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Ann Murphy, MS, PhD, Associate Professor in the School of Health Professions, has been named the Coordinator for all Rutgers Health badges and microcredentials. In addition to guiding those developing new badges, Dr. Murphy provides Rutgers Health approval for each badge and coordinates with the Rutgers-wide Microcredentials Steering Committee, which oversees digital and micro-credentialing across Rutgers. Dr. Murphy also serves as Associate Dean at the School of Health Professions and as Director of the Northeast and Caribbean Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (MHTTC), where she studies interventions to improve the lives of people with mental illnesses.
For those developing badges or microcredentials, please contact Dr. Murphy at: murphyaa@shp.rutgers.edu.
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NJ ACTS, Rutgers, Princeton and NJIT Events | | |
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Seminar Title TBD
Jenny Radesky MD
University of Michigan Medical School
Sep 25, 2026
12:00 pm
252 Nassau St, 2nd Fl
| | Celebrate Princeton Innovation (CPI) honors faculty researchers, postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, and undergraduates, making a difference through their discoveries and entrepreneurial spirit. | | |
Wednesday, October 21
5 - 7:30 p.m.
Frick Chemistry Atrium
| | If you ever struggle to find time to work on your data, manuscript, fellowship thesis, abstract or lab meeting presentation, you should join a Writing Accountability Group! Questions? Contact Janet Adler | | |
Begin your innovation journey and learn about the path to entrepreneurship
An introductory training/workshop and networking event
to shift mindset to entrepreneurship and creating your business thesis.
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Transform your technology
into benefits for society
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Hosted by NJIT
Fall 2026 - Virtual
- Mandatory Session 9/24, 4-5
- Sept 24, October 15, 22, November 5, 12, 3-6 pm
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Hosted by Princeton
Fall 2026 - Virtual
(Small Business)
- Orientation: 10/14, 12:30-2:30 pm
- Oct 28, Nov 4, 18, and Dec 2, 12:30-2:30 pm
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Hosted by Rutgers
Fall 2026 In-person/Virtual
- October 23, November 20, 10 am-1 pm, In-person
- October 30, November 6, 10 am-1 pm, Virtual
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NJ ACTS Congratulates Tricia Burdo
Rutgers & Weill Cornell Receive NIH Award to Establish NeuroHIV Research Center
Rutgers and Weill Cornell Medicine have received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) award to establish the New York-New Jersey Center for Actionable NeuroHIV Biomarkers and Integrated Omics (NYJ-CAN-BIO), a new Developmental AIDS Research Center focused on advancing research on the neurological effects of HIV.
The center is co-directed by Tricia H. Burdo, PhD, Henry Rutgers Endowed Professor of Translational Medicine and Science and professor of medicine at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and Lishomwa C. Ndhlovu, MD, of Weill Cornell Medicine. Read the Full Article from the RWJMS Dean's Newsletter
NJ ACTS congratulates Dr. Burdo on this achievement.
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Biomarkers Core
Promotes and supports non-oncological translational research by Rutgers investigators and their collaborators. Our team of experts in molecular and cellular biology and in immunology helps identify state-of-the-art approaches to tackle research questions in infectious and non-infectious diseases.
Core Services
- Consultation, experiment planning, and service outsourcing
- Assistance with data generation for manuscript or grant preparation
- Set up projects as collaboration
- IgG, IgM and IgA antibody testing and titer determination
- Detection of IgG1, IgG2, IgG3 and IgG4
- Antibody effector functions
- Memory B cell and T cell immunophenotyping
- RNA flow cytometry
| | NCATS, NIH, and Federal News and Events | | |
Integrating Patient Partnership into Clinical Research Competencies
September 16
12 - 1 pm
Register
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Epic Cosmos Teleport – A New Paradigm for Multi-Institutional Research Study Site and Patient Recruitment
November 18
12 - 1 pm
Register
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NJ ACTS Publication Highlights
Genetic and environmental interactions contribute to immune variation in rewilded mice. Oyesola O, Downie AE, Howard N, Barre RS, Kiwanuka K, Zaldana K, Chen YH, Menezes A, Lee SC, Devlin J, Mondragón-Palomino O, Souza COS, Herrmann C, Koralov SB, Cadwell K, Graham AL, Loke P. Nat Immunol. 2024 Jul;25(7):1270-1282. PMID: 36993484 PMCID: PMC10055251 DOI: 10.1101/2023.03.17.533121
Hidden Markov random field models for cell-type assignment of spatially resolved transcriptomics. Zhong C, Tian T, Wei Z. Bioinformatics. 2023 Nov 1;39(11):btad641. PMID: 37944045 PMCID: PMC10640398 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btad641
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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.
| | NJ ACTS Resources, Services, Training Programs and Working Groups | | |
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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