NEWS, EVENTS, and DEADLINES

September 9, 2026

NJ ACTS Welcomes Ann Murphy

 

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.

 

NJ ACTS, Rutgers, Princeton and NJIT Events

 
 
 

David Botstein Memorial Symposium



Sep 11, 2026

9 am - 6 pm

Maeder Hall


Read More

Register

Seminar Title TBD


Jenny Radesky MD

University of Michigan Medical School


Sep 25, 2026

12:00 pm

252 Nassau St, 2nd Fl

 

The Joys of Doing, Learning, Being in the Age of AI



 

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



Initiating Outreach for Engaging Community-Based Organizations in Clinical Trials


This free, virtual event is open to any clinical researcher, clinical research team member and anyone interested in learning more about initiating outreach of community-based organizations in clinical trials.



 Read more and register at Cures within Reach



October 27


5 – 6:15 pm


Virtual

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.

 

Hosted by Rutgers Newark

September 30, 12 - 4 pm

185 University Avenue

Newark

Hosted by Rutgers (IFH)

October 5, 12 - 4 pm

112 Paterson Street

New Brunswick

Transform your technology

into benefits for society

Hosted by NJIT

Fall 2026 - Virtual

  • Mandatory Session 9/24, 4-5
  • Sept 24, October 15, 22, November 5, 12, 3-6 pm

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

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

NJ ACTS Workforce Development is excited to announce a new partnership with the New Jersey Department of Labor’s Industry Partnerships – Life Sciences. 

 

NJ ACTS in the News

 

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.

NJ ACTS Congratulates Gary Heiman


A Rutgers-led international collaboration has identified 36 genes that substantially raise the risk for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and chronic tic disorders – providing the most detailed biological understanding of how these conditions develop – and how they might eventually be treated. Read the Rutgers Today article and the journal article in Nature Neuroscience.


Gary Heiman, a professor in the Department of Genetics in the Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences is a senior coauthor of the study. Dr. Heiman is also Co-Lead of NJ ACTS Genetically informed Research, Education, And Treatment (GREAT).

 

NJ ACTS Services

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

CTSA News and Events

NCATS, NIH, and Federal News and Events

 
 

Integrating Patient Partnership into Clinical Research Competencies


September 16

12 - 1 pm


Register

Epic Cosmos Teleport – A New Paradigm for Multi-Institutional Research Study Site and Patient Recruitment


November 18

12 - 1 pm


Register

 
 
NJ ACTS Publications

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

 

ICYMI

Biostatistics Symposium 2026 - Leveraging Electronic Health Records for Rigorous Biomedical Research. 10/16/26, 8:30 am - 5:15 pm. NYU Langone Health, NY. Read More and Register

 

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

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


Training Programs

*Mentored Career Development DEVELOP (K12)

*Predoctoral Training ASCENT (T32)

*Short-Term Research CREST (R25)



Working Groups

*Health in Action

*Dissemination & Implementation Science

*Team Science

*Learning Health System

*FairAI

CTSA Hub Funding Opportunities

Become a member of

NJ ACTS

How to cite the CTSA Grant

 
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