
Tracy Anthony, professor of Nutritional Sciences, was recently awarded a five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health for the project, “Homeostatic Responses to Amino Acid Insufficiency,” for 2021-2026. The multi-disciplinary research project involves collaboration among the fields of nutrition and metabolism, biochemistry and molecular biology, and genetics.

Asthma and allergies are chronic health conditions that continue to adversely impact the quality of life for many around the world. Thanks to exciting breakthroughs by Mark Siracusa, a researcher at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, there may be early signs of light at the end of the tunnel.

In David Salas-de la Cruz’s Rutgers University‒Camden lab, researchers are developing sustainable, adaptive building blocks using natural substances from plants and animals, along with synthetic polymers, that could replace common construction materials such as wood, concrete, and steel.