Professor Martin Yarmush and colleagues at Texas A&M (Juergen Hahn, PI; Arul Jayaraman, co-PI; and Carl Laird, co-PI) have been awarded a 4-year, $1.48 M, high-profile, NSF award entitled, "Extracting Population and Stochastic Effects on Signaling Activity from Transcription Factor Profiles". The project is focused on the development of a new computational framework that will enable investigators to partition stochastic and cell population effects with the ultimate goal of developing improved models of signal transduction pathways.
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September 2009
August 2009
August 24, 2009
The work of Er Liu, graduate student in Biomedical Engineering, and co-author, Matthew Treiser, a recent PhD graduate of the department, was highlighted as part of the cover art in the special issue of "Cell Response to Biomaterials" by the journal Combinatorial Chemistry & HTS. This work is supported by the NIH and was done in collaboration with the National Institute for Standards and Technology and the NJ Center for Biomaterials.
August 15, 2009
BME Stem Cell IGERT PI Prabhas Moghe and four other administrators (Program PI: Phil Furmanski; Other CoPI's: Mike Pazzani, Jerry Kukor, Eileen Kowler) secured a 4-Y $ 1M grant from NSF for Innovation through Institutional Integration.
August 15, 2009
Rutgers PI Bob Bartynski (Physics & Astronomy) and Co-PIs (Prabhas Moghe, BME/CBE; Vitaly Podzhorov, PA; Kathryn Uhrich, CBE; S. W Cheong, PA) were recently awarded a Major Instrumentation Award of $550,000 for Acquisition of a State-of-the-Art X-Ray Photoelectron Spectrometer for Research, Training and Education.
August 10, 2009
The NHLBI has awarded an administrative supplement of $254K to Dr. Prabhas Moghefor his NIH grant on Nanoscale Receptor Blockers for Inhibition of Atherosclerosis. BME graduate faculty member Kathryn Uhrich is a key collaborator.
July 2009
July 29, 2009
Professor Ioannis Androulakis received a 1-year $54,000 award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to further advance his work on modeling and analysis of complex reaction networks. Dr. Androulakis is an Associate Professor in BME.
July 19, 2009
Rutgers will be the home to a new Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) site program, thanks to a new $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. The program on Cellular Bioengineering: From Biomaterials to Stem Cells will be led by PICharles Roth and co-PI Prabhas Moghe and will provide opportunities for a diverse population of students to whom cutting-edge research experiences are not typically available.
July 18, 2009
BME graduate student Panagiota (Pegy) Foteinou is a recipient of a $5,000 Gerondelis Foundation award. The Foundation rewarded Pegy for her work towards understanding and modeling the multi-scale nature of human endotoxemia, a surrogate model for studying systemic inflammation in humans. Pegy is a PhD candidate in Prof. Androulakis' group.
July 16, 2009
Dr. Madabhushi (PI) and his collaborators at the University of Pennsylvania (Michael Feldman, PI) and Siemens Corporate Research (GianLuca Paladini, PI, Lance Ladic, Co-PI) have been awarded a 5 year, $3.375 million NIH R01 grant from the National Cancer Institute. This 5 year, multi-PI, multi-institutional grant will be funded for the first 2 years by money from the ARRA and for the final 3 years by the NCI.
July 16, 2009
Professor Martin Yarmush received a 4-year $2,578,970 grant from the National Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering to develop a novel subzero non-freezing protocol to extend the viable preservation times of hepatic tissues and organs using a supercooled medium. The work intends to generate a new field of supercooled storage, and also establish quantitative standards for evaluating the organ viability following preservation.