Professor Li Cai, in collaboration with Professor Haiyan Huang (PI, UC Berkeley), received a $421,096 two year award from the NIH. The title of the research grant is "Applied Statistics to a Secondary Analysis of Public Repositories for Microarray".
News
April 2009
April 10, 2009
Stephanie Loh, Biomedical Engineering Class 2010, has been chosen as one of the recipients of the Wells H. Keddie Scholarship with a award of $750. Stephanie is working on a project,"Genetic control mechanisms of Dbx1 gene expression". Dbx1 plays a critical role in spinal cord development. Professor Li Cai is her mentor.
April 9, 2009
Simon Gordonov, a BME junior and ISURF/IGERT scholar, was selected to receive the Goldwater Scholarship Award. Simon was the sole Rutgers student to receive this honor and the only BME student from New Jersey. A large number of Goldwater scholars go on to win Rhodes scholarships and other honors. Simon is advised by Prabhas Moghe.
March 2009
March 27, 2009
Shannon Agner, 3rd year MD-PhD student in the Dept. of Biomedical Engineering at Rutgers University, has been awarded for a 2 year, $50,000, pre-doctoral fellowship from the New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research (NJCCR) for her project on "Defining image-based breast cancer phenotypes on MRI". Shannon will be working on this project under the mentorship of Dr. Anant Madabhushi.
March 22, 2009
Professor Martin Yarmush received a $447,816 grant from Lifeblood Medical Inc. and DOD to test Lifeblood Medical's perfusion solutions for preservation of ischemic livers. The proposed work has significant military relevance, as a superior preservation modality would enable transportation & allocation of donor organs to the troops on foreign battlegrounds, a task which cannot be achieved currently.
March 13, 2009
BME graduate student, Panagiota Foteinou, was just awarded a Rutgers University Louis Bevier Fellowship for 2009-2010 on March 13, 2009. The Bevier Fellowship is awarded to exemplar doctoral students in their final stages of research. Pegy is a PhD student in Dr.Ioannis Androulakis' lab working on Quantitative Models of Systematic Inflammation in Humans.
March 3, 2009
Prof. Androulakis, in collaboration with Professors Lowry and Calvano (Dept. of Surgery, UMDNJ), received a $132K one year award from the NIH to further advance their collaboration towards the development of a multi-scale model of human inflammation.
March 1, 2009
BME Graduate students Jeff Barminko and Eric Wallenstein from Professor Martin Yarmush's lab have been selected for a BMEidea award from the National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance. The award, which carries a $500 stipend, is for a design project entitled, "An efficient gene delivery system for manipulating mature somatic cells".
February 2009
February 17, 2009
Professor Helen Buettner has been selected to serve as an RU-FAIR Professor for the $3.67 million Institutional Transformation grant awarded to Rutgers through the NSF ADVANCE program. She will join the management team of the Rutgers ADVANCE grant in developing and promoting multi-campus initiatives to improve gender equity in science, engineering and math on the Rutgers faculty.
February 13, 2009
Tapan Patel secured an Aresty grant for his research on the project Roles of Nkx-6.1 in Regulating Notch1 Expression in Retinal Development. The Aresty research Center for Undergraduates (ARC) has decided to grant funding in the amount of $750 in support of their undergraduate research project. Professor Li Cai is supervising the project.