Prizes & Awards
![Joachim Messing, former director of the Waksman Institute of Microbiology.](/sites/default/files/styles/4x3_half_full_default_1x/public/2020-11/Joachim%20Messing%20High%20Resolution_1.jpg?h=9da08997&itok=oij6x-E_)
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
![Rutgers researchers Andy Wyenandt, Jim Simon, Desmond Lun, and Catherine Grgicak received 2023 Edison Patent Awards](/sites/default/files/styles/16x9_one_third_default_1x/public/2024-06/20231115-edison-144.jpg?h=ac4eba53&itok=eMKlsHEd)
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.
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Four faculty members in Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences have been awarded memberships for the 2023-24 academic year at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, one of the world’s foremost centers for intellectual inquiry into the sciences and the humanities.
![Rutgers Professor Maria Gennaro named 2022 NAI Fellow](/sites/default/files/styles/16x9_one_third_default_1x/public/2022-12/gennaro_-_nai_graphic_nonailogo_website.png?h=d1cb525d&itok=pfyevD9r)
Maria Laura ‘Marila’ Gennaro, a professor of medicine at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and a professor of epidemiology at Rutgers School of Public Health, has been named a National Academy of Inventors Fellow, which is the highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors. The NAI Fellows Program highlights academic inventors who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development, and the welfare of society.