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January 23, 2020

Victor Tan awarded a 2-year Pre-Doctoral Fellowship

Victor Tan, a PhD student in Pharmacology, was awarded a 2-year pre-doctoral fellowship totaling $50,000 from the New Jersey Commission on Cancer Researach to support his work on therapeutic application of DNA base editors.
January 16, 2020

Rahul Upadhya awarded a 2-year Pre-Doctoral Fellowship

Rahul Upadhya, a PhD student in Biomedical Engineering, was awarded a 2-year pre-doctoral fellowship from the New Jersey Commission for Cancer Research.
January 10, 2020

Nisha Singh awarded a 2-year Pre-Doctoral Fellowship

Nisha Singh, a PhD student in Cell and Development Biology, was awarded a 2-year pre-doctoral fellowship totaling $60,000 from the New Jersey Commission on Spinal Cord Research to support her work on the role of guanine metabolism after spinal cord injury.  Nisha works in the lab of Dr. Bonnie Firestein.
April 1, 2019

Anton Omelchenko awarded New Jersey Commission for Brain Injury Research Pre-Doctoral Fellowship

Anton Omelchenko, a PhD student in Neuroscience, was awarded a 3-year pre-doctoral fellowship for a total of $100,500 from the New Jersey Commission on Brain Injury Research to support his work on RNAi therapeutics for traumatic brain injury.
March 26, 2019

Erika Davidoff wins second place at Rutgers University Three-Minute Thesis

Erika Davidoff, a PhD student in Biomedical Engineering, won second place at Rutgers' 2nd annual university-wide Three MInute Thesis competiton for her presentation, "Soft Gel Coatings for Improving Brain Implant Biocompatibility." Three Minute Thesis (3MT) is an internationally recognized competition that challenges PhD students to present a compelling oration on their thesis and its significance in just 3 minutes, in language that anyone can understand.
March 22, 2019

Paulina Krzyszczyk awarded Best Graduate Poster at 2019 NEBEC

Paulina Krzyszczyk, a PhD student in Biomedical Engineering, was recently awarded Best Graduate Poster at the 2019 Northeast Bioengineering Conference. Her poster was titled, "Inflammatory Secretome of Macrophages Treated with Hemoglobin-Haptoglobin Complexes".
October 2, 2018

Ileana Marrero-Berrios awarded Shatkin Scholarship

Ileana Marrero-Berrios, PhD student in Biomedical Engineering, has been selected as a recipient of 2018-19 Shatkin scholarship. The scholarship is named after Aaron Shatkin, who was the founding director of the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine (CABM). Ileana will receive a $3,000 supplement to their stipend as part of the award.
October 1, 2018

Mollie Davis Wins First Place at STEMcosR Poster Presentation

Mollie Davis, a PhD student in Biomedical Engineering, won first place poster presenter at STEMcosR. STEMcosR is about communicating science to encourage passion and interest for STEM and to encourage the pursuit of STEM careers.
September 1, 2018

Larry Cheng awarded Presidential Fellowship

Larry Cheng, a PhD student in Quantitative Biomedicine, was awared The Presidential Fellowship. This fellowship is part of Rutgers Strategic Plan to strengthen graduate programs in key areas across the University by supporting Rutgers most outstanding graduate students. */
June 1, 2018

Christopher Rathnam awarded a Pre-Doctoral Fellowship from the NJCSCR

Christopher Rathnam, a Phd student in Chemistry and Chemical Biology, was awarded a 2-year predoctoral fellowship from the New Jersey Commission on Spinal Cord Research.
March 26, 2018

Jenna Newman selected as a participant for the National Graduate Student Symposium at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Jenna Newman, a PhD student in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, was one of 41 selected students nationwide of 1500 applicants to attend the National Graduate Student Symposium at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, TN.
March 23, 2018

Jenna Newman awarded second place in oral presentation at Molecular Biosciences Graduate Student Symposium

Jenna Newman, a PhD student in the Microbiology and Molecular Genetics program, has been awarded second place in oral presentation for her talk "Influenza infection decreases tumor burden in the lungs and promotes anti-tumor immune responses" at the Molecular Biosciences Graduate Student Organization (MBGSO) Symposium on March 23, 2018 in Piscataway, NJ.
January 1, 2018

Jenna Newman awarded New Jersey Commission for Cancer Research Pre-doctoral Fellowship

Jenna Newman, a PhD student in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, has been awarded a New Jersey Commission for Cancer Research Pre-doctoral Fellowship to support her work in cancer immunotherapy.
October 2, 2017

Ilijia Melentijevic Awarded NIH F31 Grant

Fifth year Biotechnology Training Program fellow Ilija Melentijevic was awarded the NIH F31 fellowship, which provides tuition and a $24,000 stipend for three years.
September 1, 2017

Yoliem Miranda Alarcon awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Yoliem Miranda Alarcon, a PhD student in Biomedical Engineering, was awarded a 5 year National Science Foundation-Graduate Research Fellowship. /*-->*/  
February 21, 2017

Dharm Patel receives AACR-Bristol Myers Squibb Scholar-in-Training Award

The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) awarded Dharm Patel an AACR-Bristol Myers Squibb Scholar-in-Training Award in the amount of $1500.   This award was based on the quality of the award application and abstract entitled “Genomic instability in BRCA1-deficient cells is a result of the anti-recombinogenic activity of BLM helicase,”    Scholar-in-Training Awards are highly competitive and are presented to those with high-quality abstracts and applications from a large candidate pool.