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NEWS, EVENTS, and DEADLINES
August 5, 2026
| | NJ ACTS Welcomes 2026 R25 Fellows | | |
NJ ACTS welcomes 5 medical students and 5 pharmacy students for 2026!
The R25 program provides medical and pharmacy students with intensive research training in clinical and translational science during the summer following their first professional year.
Fellows are matched with faculty mentors to pursue exciting projects across the translational spectrum. Each week, fellows participate in hands-on training and networking.
Read more about these students and their projects.
| | NJ ACTS, Rutgers, Princeton and NJIT Events | | |
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 Princeton
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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Hosted by NJIT
Fall 2026 - Virtual
- Mandatory Expectation 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
- October 28, November 4, 18, and December 2, 12:30-2:30 pm
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An NJ ACTS Tribute to Sunanda Gaur
It is a challenge to acknowledge fully the many important contributions of Sunanda Gaur, MD to clinical research in general and to NJ ACTS in specific. A partner since the planning stages of NJ ACTS back in 2017, Dr. Gaur led the RWJMS Adult and Pediatric CRC, developing infrastructure to support clinical research across New Brunswick. Among their many successes, the work of the CRUs during the COVID epidemic stands out. She also co-led the clinical research cores during our first award period, and through these efforts helped lay the groundwork for the establishment of the NJ ACTS Clinical Trials Office in 2020. During our current award period, Dr. Gaur served as the lead liaison to the Trial Innovation Network, striving to expand the number of TIN trials at NJ ACTS. Dr. Gaur was also a pioneer in the treatment of pediatric HIV/AIDS, and she established the South Asian Total Health Initiative (SATHI). We are enormously grateful for Dr. Gaur's many, many contributions and successes.
We thank her and wish Dr. Gaur all the best.
| | | Rutgers Students Showcase AI-Driven Research Success Through NJ ACTS Summer Research Program | | |
This summer, five Rutgers students successfully completed research projects utilizing advanced machine learning, generative AI, and electronic health record (EHR) data resources supported by NJ ACTS, including the Clinical Research Data Warehouse (CRDW), MIMIC datasets, and Rutgers' Amarel high-performance computing environment.
Two student projects have been accepted for presentation at the prestigious 2026 American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium in Dallas: Rutgers undergraduate student Anjali Rajesh will present Ensemble Modeling for Predicting Hypertension-Related Comorbidities Using EHR Data, while doctoral student Xenia Liu will present Probabilistic Forecasting of Longitudinal Clinical Event Trajectories in Hypertensive Patients Using Medical Transformers-Based Generative Adversarial Networks.
Joseph Chavarria will present his poster at the RISE (Research Intensive Summer Experience) Symposium. Sritama Ghosh and Shariq Abdul Aziz will present their work at the Rutgers BMI HAI Summer Internship Symposium.
| | Created to enhance clinical and translational research across the NJ ACTS community by providing professional, high-quality study design, quantitative and qualitative (mixed methods) data analysis, survey research and data management services, development of innovative methodologies, as well as extensive group and individual training and instruction in biostatistics, epidemiology, and research design. | Rutgers University Biostatistics & Epidemiology Services (RUBIES) provides fee-for-service statistical support, including design, programming, data management, and data analysis, to investigators throughout Rutgers University. | | NCATS, NIH, and Federal News and Events | | |
Recruitment Strategies in
ICU Clinical Trials
August 19
12 - 1 pm
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Integrating Patient Partnership into Clinical Research Competencies
September 16
12 - 1 pm
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NJ ACTS Publication Highlights
Sociodemographic and dietary predictors of maternal and placental mycoestrogen concentrations in a US pregnancy cohort. Kinkade CW, Brinker A, Buckley B, Waysack O, Fernandez ID, Kautz A, Meng Y, Shi H, Brunner J, Ohman-Strickland P, Groth SW, O’Connor TG, Aleksunes LM, Barrett ES, Rivera-Núñez Z. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2024 Oct 4. PMID: 39363096 DOI: 10.1038/s41370-024-00722-6
Validation of an ICD-Code-Based Case Definition for Psychotic Illness Across Three Health Systems. Deo AJ, Castro VM, Baker A, Carroll D, Gonzalez-Heydrich J, Henderson DC, Holt DJ, Hook K, Karmacharya R, Roffman JL, Madsen EM, Song E, Adams WG, Camacho L, Gasman S, Gibbs JS, Fortgang RG, Kennedy CJ, Lozinski G, Perez DC, Wilson M, Reis BY, Smoller JW. Schizophr Bull. 2024 May 10:sbae064. PMID: 38464074 PMCID: PMC10925367 DOI: 10.1101/2024.02.28.24303443
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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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