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NEWS, EVENTS, and DEADLINES
June 10, 2026
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Seeking input from Clinical Research Professionals at any Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) program institution, as well as individuals involved in hiring, promotion, and advancement decisions for clinical research personnel.
The goal is to better understand how professional credentials influence career development, employment opportunities, and workforce expectations within the field.
Questions?
Contact Yasheca Ebanks, NJ ACTS Workforce Development Program Manager
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Transform your technology into benefits for society
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Hosted by Princeton University
September 2026 - Virtual
- Mandatory Preparing for the Cohort Session: 9/2, 11:00 am-12:00 pm
- September 9, 16, 30, 12:30-3:30pm
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Reynold Panettieri Receives
the Daniel Gorenstein Memorial Award
NJ ACTS congratulates Dr. Panettieri on this prestigious honor.
The award was first presented in 1994 and is given each year to a Rutgers faculty member noted for both outstanding scholarly achievement and exceptional service to the university. Dr. Panettieri will be the 32nd recipient of this award, whose previous recipients are both impressive and disciplinarily diverse.
Dr. Panettieri will be recognized at a special award ceremony and lecture this fall with details to follow at a later time. Read More
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Translating Innovations in Cancer Screening
into Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Care Settings
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Employing user-centered approaches with SUD clinic providers, staff, and patients to develop the prototype intervention materials, training, and workflow
Cancer screening rates are much lower among women with SUD due to a myriad of structural and psychological issues. The aim of this project is to develop a feasible, scalable workflow for cervical and colorectal self-sampling screening that leverages SUD clinic appointments to increase screening among women who are overdue.
Ana Tergas, MD, New Jersey Medical School (top)
Racquel Kelly Kohler, PhD, Rutgers School of Public Health
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Platform for Translating Microbiome Studies
into Clinically Relevant Applications
Using trans-generational germ-free mice transplanted with healthy microbiomes and then exposed to different challenges, the original effects of the microbiome are measured without interference from disease or treatment-related changes
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The challenges will model natural microbiome exposure followed by disease development. This approach will help identify traits that are directly caused by the gut microbiome and create contrasting mouse groups for future mechanistic studies
Mohamed S. Donia, PhD
Princeton Department of Molecular Biology
| | NCATS, NIH, and Federal News and Events | | |
NEW K & T Visiting Scientists Consortium Group Seeks Leadership Interest
The new K&T Visiting Scientists Consortium Group (KTVS-CG) is seeking Co-Chairs and lead team members to help build a coordinated, scalable, and sustainable model while fostering a nationally connected community of trainees and scholars.
Express Interest
KTVS-CG Charter
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New Interactive Tool Maps Gene Variants to Health Traits
The National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Program has launched All by All, a powerful, publicly accessible tool that maps gene variants to other health characteristics to quickly surface connections that might otherwise take years of computational work to identify.
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Definition of Foreign Components for all NIH Grants
As outlined in the NIH Grants Policy Statement, a foreign component is:
The performance of any significant scientific element or segment of a project outside of the United States, either by the recipient or by a researcher employed by a foreign organization, whether or not grant funds are expended. Activities that would meet this definition include, but are not limited to
- the involvement of human subjects or animals at a foreign site,
- extensive foreign travel by recipient project staff for the purpose of data collection, surveying, sampling, and similar activities, or
- any activity of the recipient that may have an impact on U.S. foreign policy through involvement in the affairs or environment of a foreign country.
NOT-OD-26-084 - Reminder – Definition of Foreign Components
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NIH is reminding the extramural community of the longstanding definition of foreign components; this is not an expansion of the definition
- Applies to all NIH grants, cooperative agreements, and other transaction agreements
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A foreign component means performance of a significant scientific element or segment of the project outside the U.S., whether or not NIH funds are expended
- Examples include: human subjects or animal work at a foreign site; extensive foreign travel for data collection, surveying, or sampling; or activities that may affect U.S. foreign policy through involvement in another country
- Other indicators may include anticipated co-authorship with investigators at a foreign site, use of foreign facilities or instrumentation, or receipt of financial support/resources from a foreign entity
- Recipients should report foreign co-authorship to the funding IC as soon as they are aware of it so NIH can determine whether any action is needed.
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Using social media to recruit for clinical trials – An updated toolkit from the Recruitment Innovation Center
August 3
12 - 1 pm
Register
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The Joint Task Force-Patient Partner Project: Integrating Patient Partnership into Clinical Research Competencies
September 16
12 - 1 pm
Register
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NJ ACTS Publication Highlights
BioReX: Biomarker Information Extraction Inspired by Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis. Weiting Gao, Xiangyu Gao, Wenjin Chen, David J. Foran, Yi Chen. Conference paper Lecture Notes in ComputerScience ((LNAI,volume 14648)). First Online: 01 May 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/9
Development and initial psychometric properties of the Research Complexity Index. Allison A. Norful, Bernadette Capili, Christine Kovner, Olga F. Jarrín, Laura Viera, Scott McIntosh, Jacqueline Attia, Bridget Adams, Kitt Swartz, Ashley Brown and Margaret Barton-Burke. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 May 2024.
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