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Denise Robles, a 4th Year Biomedical Engineering PhD Student, has been awarded a two-year predoctoral fellowship from the NJ Governor's Council for Medical Research and Treatment of Autism (NJGCA) for her proposal entitled "Modeling Long-Range Connectivity Deficits in Autism Spectrum Disorders usng Cerebral Organoids."  Densie is co-advised by Jeffrey Zahn and Zhiping Pang.

Robert Rosen has been awarded a two-year pre-doctoral fellowship from the New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research (NJCCR) for his project investigating Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell Therapy associated toxicities.  Robert is a student in the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School MD-PhD program.  His graduate studies are in Biomedical Engineering in the lab of Dr. Martin Yarmush.  Robert aims to identify mechanisms and therapeutics to reduce the burden of cell-based immunotherapy toxicities and improve their safety and accessibility. 

Joseph Lubin, a 5th Year PhD student, was recognized by the Rutgers Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Reid Award for Graduate Students for his work on Computational protein modeling for protease design and analysis of coronaviral evolution.

Rebecca Risman, a Biomedical Engineering PhD student, has been awarded a two-year, $50,000 pre-doctoral fellowship by the New Jersey Commission of Cancer Research to examine the mechanisms of cancer associated thrombosis.

Alexandra Burr a 4th year PhD candidate in Biomedical Engineering, has been chosen as one of three pre-doctoral students among Rutgers, NJIT, and Princeton University to receive a NIH TL1 fellowship and membership in the NJACTS Training Program in Clinical and Translational Science.The highly prestigious NIH Clinical Translational Science Award (CTSA) was granted to Rutgers University and its partners in 2019 to encourage and enable the development of innovative solutions that will improve the efficiency, quality and impact of the process for turning observations in the laboratory, clinic a

Kate (Fitzgerald) O'Neill was actively involved in outreach during graduate school due to encouragement from her thesis advisor, Prof. Bonnie Firestein. This Neuroscience Day program, which included sheep brain dissections and other hands-on activities, was supported by Prof. Firestein through an outreach grant from the NJ Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience. The purpose of this initiative is to expose high school students to and encourage their interest in STEM careers by bringing them into a laboratory environment.

Erika Davidoff was selected as one of three Rutgers students to present her work at the 2020 Johnson & Johnson Engineering Showcase at their world headquarters in New Brunswick.  J&J runs the showcase every year to promote engineering creativity at the company and at NJ universities.  Selection criteria included innovation, technical feasibility, impact to humanity, and clarity of presentation.  The showcase will be on February 26, 2020.