Faculty Excellence
Internationally renowned Rutgers University scientist and former director of the Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Joachim Messing, was posthumously honored as this year’s recipient of the Science and Technology Medal from the Research & Development Council of New Jersey for his groundbreaking work in shotgun DNA sequencing.
Stories
Pioneering sociologist Charles Payne, director of the Cornwall Center for Metropolitan Studies at Rutgers-Newark, was named this year to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Payne’s research has broken new ground in the study of both the civil rights movement and urban education.
Basil varieties that are resistant to the deadly downy mildew disease. A computational tool that calculates the probability of the number of contributors in a DNA profile. These two innovations share two things in common: both were developed at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and both received Edison Patent Awards at the Research & Development Council of New Jersey (RDNJ) annual banquet on Wednesday, November 15, 2023.
Rutgers researchers nearly swept the 2023 Philadelphia Nucleate Activator Program awards, highlighted by a team focusing on the creation of a new binge-eating disorder drug taking the High Performance Grand Prize.
Base editing technology invented at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and exclusively licensed to Revvity, Inc. subsidiary Horizon Discovery, has been sub-licensed to biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca to support its creation of cell therapies for the treatment of cancer and immune-mediated diseases.
The Rutgers research and innovation community came together to celebrate its own at the 2023 Patent Awards Celebration, in Trayes Hall at the Douglass Student Center.