Busch Biomedical Grant Awardees Archive

Michelle Chen

School: Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Department: Neurology
Unit: Rutgers Health
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Professor
Project Title: It's not where you are but how you get there: predicting neuropsychological process scores using digital voice recordings.

Santiago Cuesta

School: School of Arts and Science
Department: Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Unit: New Brunswick
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Professor
Project Title: Impact of the Adolescent Gut Microbiome on Brain Maturation

Lisa Denzin

School: Robert Wood Johnson Medical School- Rutgers Cancer Institute of NJ
Department: Pediatrics
Unit: Rutgers Health
Primary Appointment Title: Associate Professor
Project Title: An unexpected role for bone morphogenic protein 2 (BMPR2) in the MHC class II antigen processing and presentation pathway

Stella Elkabes

School: Rutgers NJ Medical School
Department: Neurosurgery
Unit: Rutgers Health
Primary Appointment Title: Professor
Project Title: Repeated concussions as risk factors for multiple sclerosis (MS) and MS-associated comorbidities: mechanisms in a new animal model

Jinglin Fu

School: Faculty of Arts and Science
Department: Chemistry
Unit: Camden
Primary Appointment Title: Associate Professor
Project Title: Enhancement of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Genome Editing with Targeted DNA Nanoparticles Delivery

Andrey Grigoriev

School: Faculty of Arts and Science
Department: Biology
Unit: Camden
Primary Appointment Title: Professor
Project Title: Computational analysis of recombination in SARS-CoV-2: novel mechanisms in virology and pandemic preparedness

Hilary Grosso Jasutkar

School: Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Department: Neurology
Unit: Rutgers Health
Primary Appointment Title: Instructor of Neurology
Project Title: The Role of Synaptic Autophagy in Alzheimer's Disease

Matthew Moschitto

School: Pharmacy
Department: Medicinal Chemistry
Unit: Rutgers Health
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Professor
Project Title: An inward-out sulfonyl fluoride hub approach to the development of covalent inhibitors

Philip Parker

School: School of Arts and Science
Department: Psychology
Unit: New Brunswick
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Professor
Project Title: Neural circuitry of ethological sensorimotor integration

Daniel Pilch

School: Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Department: Pharmacology
Unit: Rutgers Health
Primary Appointment Title: Professor
Project Title: Development of New Antibiotics Against Important Gram-Negative Bacterial Pathogens

Mark Rossi        

School: Robert Wood Johnson Medical School- Rutgers Cancer Institute of NJ
Department: Psychiatry
Unit: Rutgers Health
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Professor
Project Title: A pontine-hypothalamic pathway for acquiring aversive behavioral states.

Loren W. Runnels

School: Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Department: Pharmacology
Unit: Rutgers Health
Primary Appointment Title: Professor
Project Title: Function of CNNM2 in HSMR Syndrome

Harini Sampath

School: School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
Department: Nutritional Sciences
Unit: New Brunswick
Primary Appointment Title: Associate Professor
Project Title: A novel role for stearoyl-CoA desaturases in modulating colonic inflammation and risk for colorectal cancers.

Elizabeth Tricomi

School: School of Arts and Science
Department: Psychology
Unit: Newark
Primary Appointment Title: Associate Professor
Project Title: The role of math anxiety in processing feedback about math performance

Travis Baker

School: School of Arts & Sciences
Department: Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience
Unit: Newark
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Professor
Project Title: Targeting Memory Circuit Function to Develop Noninvasive Brain Stimulation Treatment Strategies for Alzheimer’s Disease

Christina Bergey

School: School of Arts & Sciences
Department: Genetics
Unit: New Brunswick
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Professor
Project Title: Transgenic disruption of pathogen transmission in mosquito vectors using piRNA signaling

Suzie Chen

School: Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy
Department: Chemical Biology
Unit: RBHS
Primary Appointment Title: Professor and Chair
Project Title: Cell adhesion molecule L1 and metastasis

Shin-Heng Chiou

School: Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Department: Medicine
Unit: RBHS
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Professor
Project Title: Understanding hypoxia-induced chromatin reprogramming in pancreatic cancer progression

Emanuel Dicicco-Bloom

School: Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Department: Neuroscience and Cell Biology
Unit: RBHS
Primary Appointment Title: Professor
Project Title: The Role of the Microbiome and Genetic Vulnerability in Brain Development and Behavior

Bonnie Firestein

School: School of Arts & Sciences
Department: Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Unit: New Brunswick
Primary Appointment Title: Professor
Project Title: Inhibition of Guanine Deaminase in a Mouse Model for Human Hyperuricemia

Mei Rosemary Fu

School: School of Nursing
Department: Nursing
Unit: Camden
Primary Appointment Title: Professor & Senior Associate Dean for Research
Project Title: Lymphatic system stimulation and fluid overload symptoms in patients with heart failure

Sabine Hilfiker

School: New Jersey Medical School
Department: Anesthesiology
Unit: RBHS
Primary Appointment Title: Associate Professor
Project Title: Cellular implications of Parkinson´s disease-associated VPS35 mutation

Colin Kinz-Thompson

School: School of Arts & Sciences
Department: Chemistry
Unit: Newark
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Profressor
Project Title: Biological transient polymer networks for environmentally responsive drug delivery

Vikas Nanda

School: Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Unit: RBHS
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Professor (Research)
Project Title: Computational design of gene therapy viral vectors to accommodate larger genomes

Xiaoyang Su

School: Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Department: Medicine
Unit: RBHS
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Professor (Research)
Project Title: Investigating the Role of SLC45A4 in GABA Metabolism

Katsunori Sugimoto

School: New Jersey Medical School
Department: Microbiology, Biochemistry, Molecular Genetics
Unit: RBHS
Primary Appointment Title: Associate Professor
Project Title: DNA structures that activate ATM-related protein kinase Tel1

William Welsh

School: Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Department: Pharmacology
Unit: RBHS
Primary Appointment Title: Professor
Project Title: Sigma-1 Receptor (S1R) Antagonist PW507 as Opioid Adjuvant Therapy: Selective Enhancement of Opioid Analgesia with Benign Side Effects Profile

Paul Breslin

School: Environmental and Biological Sciences
Department: Nutritional Sciences
Unit: New Brunswick
Primary Appointment Title: Professor
Project Title: Brain Reward from Oral Metabolic Signaling of Carbohydrates: Implications for Sugar Reduction

Rick Cohen

School: Engineering
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Unit: New Brunswick
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Research Professor
Project Title: Affinity Bio-Filtration of SARS-CoV-2 with Size Optimized Electrospun Nylon Fibers Coated with a Mutant Red Algae Lectin Trimer based on Griffithsin Produced in Nicotiana benthamiana

Morgan James

School: RWJMS
Department: Psychiatry
Unit: RBHS
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Professor
Project Title: Sleep dysregulation in cocaine addiction: The orexin system as a therapeutic target

Jason Kaelber

School: Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine
Department: Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine
Unit: New Brunswick
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Research Professor
Project Title: In situ 3D imaging of the adeno-associated virus journey to genome release

Yong Kim

School: RWJMS
Department: Neurosurgery
Unit: RBHS
Primary Appointment Title: Associate Professor
Project Title: Alteration of neuronal programming by a novel coding variant of WAVE1 associated with Alzheimer’s disease

Suneel Kumar

School: Engineering
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Unit: New Brunswick
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Research Professor
Project Title: Development of a Slow Drug Delivery Wound Dressing for Pressure Ulcer Healing

Guillaume Lamoureux

School: Arts and Sciences Camden
Department: Chemistry​​​​​​​
Unit: Camden​​​​​​​
Primary Appointment Title: Associate Professor​​​​​​​
Project Title: New machine learning approaches to overcome the “low-data” challenge of predicting protein-protein interactions in vivo

Kiran Madura

School: RWJMS​​​​​​​
Department: Pharmacology​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Unit: RBHS​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Primary Appointment Title: Professor​​​​​​​
Project Title: Characterizing an export-mediated mechanism for the degradation of nuclear proteins

David Margolis

School: School of Arts and Sciences​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Department: Cell Biology and Neuroscience​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Unit: New Brunswick​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Primary Appointment Title: Associate Professor​​​​​​​
Project Title: Auditory motor integration dynamics in the tail of the striatum

Hiroko Nobuta

School: RWJMS​​​​​​​
Department: Neuroscience and Cell Biology​​​​​​​
Unit: RBHS​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant professor​​​​​​​
Project Title: Spatial Transcriptomic and Electrophysiological Approaches to Understand Neuron-Oligodendrocyte Communication in Human Synaptic Development

Vasileios Petrou

School: NJMS​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Department: Microbiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics​​​​​​​
Unit: RBHS​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Professor and Chancellor Scholar​​​​​​​
Project Title: Structural Studies of the Orphan Glutamate Receptor GluD2

Loredana Quadro

School: Environmental and Biological Sciences​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Department: Food Science​​​​​​​
Unit: New Brunswick​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Primary Appointment Title: Professor​​​​​​​
Project Title: Asparaginase-associated vitamin A deficiency: causes and consequences

Derek Sant'Angelo

School: RWJMS​​​​​​​
Department: Child Health Institute Pediatrics/Pharmacology
Unit: RBHS​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Primary Appointment Title: Professor​​​​​​​
Project Title: Fetal derived T cells and the onset of labor

Gleb Shumyatsky

School: School of Arts and Sciences​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Department: Genetics
Unit: New Brunswick​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Primary Appointment Title: Professor​​​​​​​
Project Title: Dissecting neural circuits of maternal care

Dorothy Vatner

School: NJMS​​​​​​​
Department: Cell Biology & Molecular Medicine​​​​​​​
Unit: RBHS​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Primary Appointment Title: Ledyard Pfund Professor​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Project Title: The role of brown adipose tissue and microbiota in mediating healthful aging and improved exercise performance

Juan Pablo Zanin

School: School of Arts Sciences Newark​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Department: Biological Sciences​​​​​​​
Unit: Newark​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Primary Appointment Title: Research Associate​​​​​​​
Project Title: Associative learning in the cerebellum: impact of the imbalance between context and event representations

Michael Mathews

School: NJMS
Department: Medicine
Unit: RBHS
Primary Appointment Title: Professor
Project Title: Modulation of the cellular transcriptome by SARS-CoV-2

Sridhar Kannurpatti

School: NJMS
Department: Radiology
Unit: RBHS
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Professor
Project Title: Simultaneous multimodality translational imaging to advance treatments for Concussive Head Injuries

Robert Wieder

School: NJMS
Department: Medicine
Unit: RBHS
Primary Appointment Title: Professor
Project Title: Predicting Adverse Events in Patients Receiving Multi-Modality Treatment for Breast Cancer Using Artificial Intelligence

Hong Li

School: NJMS
Department: Microbiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine
Unit: RBHS
Primary Appointment Title: Associate Professor
Project Title: Axonal novel protein synthesis in retrograde neurotrophic signaling and brain injury

Pankaj Agarwalla

School: NJMS
Department: Neurosurgery
Unit: RBHS
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Professor
Project Title: Adenosine Kinase inhibition as a Novel Therapeutic Target in Glioma

Moshmi Bhattahcarya

School: RWJMS
Department: Medicine
Unit: RBHS
Primary Appointment Title: Associate Professor
Project Title: Preclinical Validation of Novel Treatment for Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD)

Andy Babwah

School: RWJMS
Department: Pediatrics
Unit: RBHS
Primary Appointment Title: Associate Professor
Project Title: Uterine KISS1R critically regulates ERα expression and signaling on the day of embryo implantation

Tetsuya Nakamura

School: SAS
Department: Genetics
Unit: New Brunswick
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Professor
Project Title: The Genetic Mechanisms that Specify Two Distinct Types of Ossification

Fei Zhang

School: SASN
Department: Chemistry
Unit: Newark
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Professor
Project Title: Molecular Recognition Assisted by Single-Stranded Nucleic Acid Nanostructures

Vincent McGinty

School: SASN
Department: Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience
Unit: Newark
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Professor
Project Title: Reading and writing the neural code for value-based choice

Jean-Pierre Etchegaray

School: SASN
Department: Biological Sciences
Unit: Newark
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Professor
Project Title: Deciphering Epigenetic Dynamics driven by TET-mediated DNA oxidations during cellular rejuvenation

Elizabeth Snyder

School: SEBS
Department: Animal Science
Unit: New Brunswick
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Professor
Project Title: ADAD1-mediated ribosome regulation in the post-meiotic male germ cell

Sue Shapses

School: SEBS
Department: Nutritional Sciences
Unit: New Brunswick
Primary Appointment Title: Professor
Project Title: Sources of cytokines: the role of obesity

KiBum Lee

School: SOE
Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Unit: New Brunswick
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Professor
Project Title: 4D Printing of a Transformable Organoid Culture Array for Rapid Drug Development

Denise Hien

School: GSAPP
Department: Applied Psychology
Unit: New Brunswick
Primary Appointment Title: Associate Professor
Project Title: Big data approach to neural correlates of risk behaviors for substance use initiation

Huijuan Hu

School: NJMS
Department: Anesthesiology
Unit: RBHS
Primary Appointment Title: Associate Professor
Project Title: Role of store-operated calcium channels in itch

Jian Cao

School: RWJMS
Department: Medicine
Unit: RBHS
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Professor
Project Title: Hepatitis B virus hijacks the histone methyltransferase complex to drive hepatocellular carcinoma development

Arnold Rabson

School: RWJMS
Department: Child Health Institute of New Jersey
Unit: RBHS
Primary Appointment Title: Professor
Project Title: Using human iPSC-derived brain organoids containing microglia to study HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders

Srujana Samhita Yadavalli

School: SAS
Department: Genetics/Waksman
Unit: New Brunswick
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Professor
Project Title: Functional analyses of small protein regulators in bacteria

Maxime Assous

School: SASN
Department: Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience
Unit: Newark
Primary Appointment Title: Research Associate
Project Title: Regulation of striatal cholinergic interneuron activity and related behavior by ß2- containing nicotinic receptors.

Frank Jordan

School: SASN
Department: Chemistry
Unit: Newark
Primary Appointment Title: Rutgers University Board of Governors Professor
Project Title: Pathogenic mechanism in metabolic crosstalk between lysine catabolism and the Krebs cycle

Joshua Miller

School: SEBS
Department: Nutritional Sciences
Unit: New Brunswick
Primary Appointment Title: Professor and Chair
Project Title: The Gut Microbiome and Vitamin B12 Status in Humans

Laura Fabris

School: SOE
Department: Materials Science and Engineering
Unit: New Brunswick
Primary Appointment Title: Associate Professor
Project Title: Identification, Quantification, and Validation of Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarkers in Blood with a Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Sensing Platform

Wei Vivian Li

School: SPH
Department: Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Unit: RBHS
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Professor
Project Title: A novel approach for joint modeling of multi-patient single-cell gene expression data

Lisa Payne

School: CAS- Cam
Department: Psychology
Unit: Camden
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Professor
Project Title: Neural mechanisms of a clinical assessment of cognitive inhibitory control

Phoebe Stapleton

School: Pharmacy
Department: Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Unit: RBHS
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Professor
Project Title: Microvascular mechanisms of growth restriction after environmental toxicant exposure

Guoping (Sam) Gu

School: SAS
Department: Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Unit: New Brunswick
Primary Appointment Title: Associate Professor
Project Title: RNA-mediated Chromatin Regulation and Epigenetic Inheritance in C. elegans

Kristen Labazzo

School: DOE
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Unit: New Brunswick
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Professor of Professional Practice
Project Title: A Novel Approach Utilizing a Biomaterial Scaffold for the Prevention of Trauma-Induced Heterotopic Ossification

Carrie Esopenko

School: SHP
Department: Rehabilitation and Movement Sciences
Unit: RBHS
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Professor
Project Title: Characterizing the Brain and Behavioral Phenotypes of Physical Violence in IPV

Jamil Bhanji

School: SASN
Department: Psychology
Unit: Newark
Primary Appointment Title: Research Assistant Professor
Project Title: Neural Mechanisms of Negative Affect in Lab and Daily Life in Smokers

Grace Brannigan

School: FASC
Department: Physics
Unit: Camden
Primary Appointment Title: Associate Professor
Project Title: Mechanisms for lipid modulation of neurotransmitter receptors

Joan Durbin

School: NJMS
Department: Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine
Unit: RBHS
Primary Appointment Title: Clinical Professor
Project Title: Inhibition of Antibacterial Defenses by Antiviral Interferons

Audrey Minden

School: EMSOP
Department: Chemical Biology
Unit: RBHS
Primary Appointment Title: Associate Professor
Project Title: PAK4 and mTORC2 as novel targets for the treatment of triple negative breast cancers

Pierre-Olivier Polack

School: SASN
Department: Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience
Unit: Newark
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Professor
Project Title: Integration of visual information in the primary visual cortex during passive and active audiovisual processing

Amrik Sahota

School: SAS
Department: Psychology
Unit: New Brunswick
Primary Appointment Title: Professor
Project Title: A new genetic model of self-injurious behavior in Lesch-Nyhan disease: Neurochemistry and pharmacotherapy

Haoran Zhang

School: SOE
Department: Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
Unit: New Brunswick
Primary Appointment Title: Associate Professor
Project Title: Developing a new paradigm for antibiotic discovery using advanced synthetic biology tools

Abdelfattah El Ouaamari

School: RWJMS
Department: Medicine
Unit: RBHS
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Professor
Project Title: Sensory-Derived Signals Regulate Regeneration of Insulin-Producing β Cells

Yanxiang Guo

School: CINJ
Department: Medical Oncology
Unit: RBHS
Primary Appointment Title: Associate Professor
Project Title: Autophagy and Immunoresponse in LKB1-deficient KRAS-mutant NSCLC

Sunyoung Kim

School: SCI
Department: Library and Information Science
Unit: New Brunswick
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Professor
Project Title: Creating a novel indoor air quality monitoring tool for children with asthma

Anna Konova

School: RBHS
Department: Psychiatry
Unit: RBHS
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Professor
Project Title: Role of the LC-NE stress and arousal system in opioid reuse risk in humans

Alexander Kusnecov

School: SAS
Department: Psychology
Unit: New Brunswick
Primary Appointment Title: Associate Professor
Project Title: Role of OFQ/N in the neuroinflammatory and behavioral response to chronic stress

Liping Zhao

School: SEBS
Department: Biochemistry and Microbiology
Unit: New Brunswick
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Research Professor
Project Title: Characterizing a foundation guild of fiber-utilizing bacteria in the human gut microbiota

Jianyuan Zhang

School: SAS
Department: Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Unit: New Brunswick
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Professor
Project Title: Precise Gd Endohedral Metallofullerene Derivatives for Next-Generation Magnetic Resonance Imaging Contrast Agents

Alice Chu

School: NJMS
Department: Orthopaedics
Unit: RBHS
Primary Appointment Title: Associate Professor
Project Title: A dynamic functional hand splint for severely disabled children with cerebral palsy

Laura Byham-Gray

School: SHP
Department: Clinical and Preventive Nutrition Sciences
Unit: RBHS
Primary Appointment Title: Professor
Project Title: Image-based Dietary Assessment in Chronic Kidney Disease (IDEA-CKD)

Philip Giampietro

School: RWJMS
Department: Pediatrics
Unit: RBHS
Primary Appointment Title: Professor
Project Title: Utilization of "Hold Out" Testing as a Means of Predicting Surgical Need in Idiopathic Scoliosis

Enver Izgu

School: SAS
Department: Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Unit: New Brunswick
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Professor
Project Title: Designer Small Molecule-Nucleic Acid Constructs for in Cellulo Detection of Disease Conditions

Elizabeth Torres

School: RWJMS
Department: Neurology
Unit: RBHS
Primary Appointment Title: Professor
Project Title: A pilot project to validate digital biomarkers as a tool to measure improvement in core symptoms of autism during sulforaphane treatment.

Arek Kulczyk

School: SEBS
Department: Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine/Department of Biochemistry & Microbiology
Unit: New Brunswick
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Professor
Project Title: Cryo-EM Structure Determination of the Mitochondrial Replisome

Carol Lutz

School: NJMS
Department: Microbiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Unit: RBHS
Primary Appointment Title: Associate Professor and Assistant Dean
Project Title: Coordinated TAM receptor and arachidonic acid signaling in a lung cancer model

Joseph Martin

School: FASC
Department: Biology Department
Unit: Camden
Primary Appointment Title: Professor
Project Title: Thyronamines: Detection and Characterization of Effects

Andrew Nieuwkoop

School: SAS
Department: Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Unit: New Brunswick
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Professor
Project Title: Incorporating Deuterium to Enable Solid-State NMR Investigations of Phosphatidylinositol Phosphate Binding Domains

Mimi Phan

School: SAS
Department: Psychology
Unit: New Brunswick
Primary Appointment Title: Associate Research Professor
Project Title: Epigenetic modulation of auditory memories in a songbird model

Shireen Rizvi

School: Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology
Department: Clinical Psychology
Unit: New Brunswick
Primary Appointment Title: Associate Professor
Project Title: Real-time physiological and psychological assessment of emotion regulation as a mechanism of efficacy in Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Lei Yu

School: SAS
Department: Genetics
Unit: New Brunswick
Primary Appointment Title: Distinguished Professor
Project Title: Targeting SIP30 for Neuropathic Pain Relief with U1 Adaptor Gene Silencing Technology

Renping Zhou

School: EMSOP
Department: Chemical Biology
Unit: RBHS
Primary Appointment Title: Professor
Project Title: ALS Treatment Using Targeted, Regulated Delivery of Neurotrophic Factors

Kasia Bieszczad

School: SAS
Department: Psychology
Unit: New Brunswick
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Professor
Project Title: A NexGenMo of AD for deficits in memory, cortical plasticity, and its rescue using HDAC-inhibitors

Max Tischfield

School: SAS
Department: Cell Bio and Neuroscience
Unit: New Brunswick
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Professor
Project Title: An integrative approach for modeling human skull, meningeal, and vascular defects

Shristi Rawal

School: SHP
Department: Nutritional Sciences
Unit: RBHS
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Professor
Project Title: Methadone vs. Buprenorphine Therapy for Opioid Dependence: Diet and Metabolic Implications

Nir Yakoby

School: FASC
Department: Biology
Unit: Camden
Primary Appointment Title: Associate Professor
Project Title: Role of tRNA-derived fragments (tRFs) in patterning epithelial cells

Carolyn Suzuki

School: NJMS
Department: Microbiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Unit: RBHS
Primary Appointment Title: Associate Professor
Project Title: Investigating ionizing radiation stressors on cardiac mitochondria using human stem cells

Michael Matise

School: RWJMS
Department: Neuroscience and Cell Biology
Unit: RBHS
Primary Appointment Title: Associate Professor
Project Title: elucidate the pathogenic mechanisms that prevent efficient re-myelination in the CNS following injury or disease the CNS following injury or disease

Samantha Farris

School: SAS
Department: Psychology
Unit: New Brunswick
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Professor
Project Title: Reducing Fear of Body Sensations and Exercise Avoidance in Cardiac Rehabilitation

Jean-francois Daneault

School: SHP
Department: Rehabilitation and Movement Sciences
Unit: RBHS
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Professor
Project Title: A novel energy-harvesting sensor to monitor patients with hyperkinetic movements

Wilma Friedman

School: FASN
Department: Biological Sciences
Unit: Newark
Primary Appointment Title: Professor
Project Title: Neurotrophin regulation of cerebellar development

Nanjoo Suh

School: EMSOP
Department: Chemical Biology
Unit: RBHS
Primary Appointment Title: Professor
Project Title: Targeting cancer stem cells for breast cancer prevention

Marc Gartenberg

School: RWJMS
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Unit: RBHS
Primary Appointment Title: Professor
Project Title: Binding, Sliding and Function of Cohesin on Sister Chromatids

Alexander Neimark

School: SOE
Department: Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
Unit: New Brunswick
Primary Appointment Title: Distinguished Professor
Project Title: Molecular Design of Biomimetic Lipid Membranes and Liposomes

Wei Dai

School: SAS
Department: Cell Bio and Neuroscience
Unit: New Brunswick
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Professor
Project Title: Cell-to-cell Pathogenic PolyQ Transmission in Huntington’s Disease Progression

Adam Gormley

School: SOE
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Unit: New Brunswick
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Professor
Project Title: Discovery of anticancer synthetic protein mimics

Grace Guo

School: EOHSI
Department: Pharmacology and Toxicology
Unit: RBHS
Primary Appointment Title: Associate Professor
Project Title: Bariatric Surgery, Bile acids, and intestine FXR

Xin Qi

School: CINJ
Department: Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Unit: RBHS
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Professor
Project Title: HPC-based Multi-factor Decision-Making (MD) Tool for Prostate Cancer (PCa)

Ilker Hacihaliloglu

School: SOE
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Unit: New Brunswick
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Professor
Project Title: Learning-based Computational 3D Ultrasound Imaging Platform for Percutaneous Needle Guidance

Kim McKim

School: SAS
Department: Genetics
Unit: New Brunswick
Primary Appointment Title: Professor
Project Title: Homolog bi-orientation and segregation in oocyte acentrodomal meiosis

Mark West

School: SAS
Department: Psychology
Unit: New Brunswick
Primary Appointment Title: Professor
Project Title: Individual and sex differences in cocaine cue induced accumbens firing, USV's and relapse behavior

Davide Comoletti

School: RWJMS
Department: Child Health Institute of New Jersey
Unit: RBHS
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Professor
Project Title: Rapid and unbiased identification of viral entry receptors in human neurons

Karen Edelblum

School: NJMS
Department: Medicine
Unit: RBHS
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Professor
Project Title: Type I interferon regulation of γδ IELs in innate immunity

Isaac Edery

School: SAS
Department: Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Unit: New Brunswick
Primary Appointment Title: Professor
Project Title: Seasonal Adaptation of a Circadian Clock

Dana Price

School: SEBS
Department: Plant Biology
Unit: New Brunswick
Primary Appointment Title: Associate Research Professor
Project Title: Functional genomic classification of the mosquito gut microbiome

Miriam Rosenberg-Lee

School: SASN
Department: Psychology
Unit: Newark
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Professor
Project Title: Flexible use of semantics in social cognition and reading, and its disruption in autism

Laura Fabris

School: SOE
Department: Materials Science and Engineering
Unit: New Brunswick
Primary Appointment Title: Associate Professor
Project Title: Multiplexed Phenotype Profiling of Prostate Cancer Cells

Daniel Hoffman

School: SEBS
Department: Nutritional Sciences
Unit: New Brunswick
Primary Appointment Title: Associate Professor
Project Title: African-Indigenous Vegetables to Improve Micronutrient Status in Children

Konstantinos Michmizos

School: SAS/RWJMS
Department: Computer Science
Unit: New Brunswick
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Professor
Project Title: Computational Neuromodulation: Neuromarkers to personalize Deep Brain Stimulation

Vijay Parashar

School: SDM
Department: Oral Biology
Unit: RBHS
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Professor
Project Title: Development of novel antibiotic adjuvants targeting cyclic-di-AMP metabolism in Gram-positive bacteria

Gloria Rodriguez

School: NJMS
Department: Medicine
Unit: RBHS
Primary Appointment Title: Associate Professor
Project Title: Riboregulation and iron homeostasis in M. tuberculosis

Konstantin Severinov

School: SAS
Department: Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Unit: New Brunswick
Primary Appointment Title: Professor
Project Title: Harnessing microbial biodiversity for discovery of novel genome editing tools

Jay Sy

School: SOE
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Unit: New Brunswick
Primary Appointment Title: Assistant Professor
Project Title: Improved mechanical compliance and biocompatibility of brain implants

William Welsh

School: RWJMS
Department: Pharmacology
Unit: RBHS
Primary Appointment Title: Professor
Project Title: Atypical Small Molecule Inhibitors of Axl Tyrosine Kinase for Cancer Therapy

George Yap

School: NJMS
Department: Medicine
Unit: RBHS
Primary Appointment Title: Professor
Project Title: Defining the Toxoplasma Host Receptome in the CNS

Miguel Zaratiegui

School: SAS
Department: Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Unit: New Brunswick
Primary Appointment Title: Associate Professor
Project Title: A genetically tractable model of human heterochromatin silencing

Zhiyuan Shen

School: CINJ
Unit: RBHS
Project Title: Proteomic and structural characterizations of a novel protein methyl-transferase

Naureen Memon

School: RWJMS
Unit: RBHS
Project Title: Impaired FGF19 Secretion as a Susceptibility Factor for Neonatal Liver Disease

Gayathri Subramanian

School: RSDM
Unit: RBHS
Project Title: Early Diagnosis, risk assessment and cure for Osteonecrosis of the Jaw: a translational model

Zhaohui Feng

School: CINJ
Unit: RBHS
Project Title: The regulation of mutant p53 protein accumulation and gain-of-function in cancer

Ping Xie

School: SAS
Unit: New Brunswick
Project Title: Roles of TRAF3 in myeloid-derived suppressor cells in the tumor microenvironment

Huizhou Fan

School: RWJMS
Unit: RBHS
Project Title: Systematic analysis of transcription in the human pathogen Chlamydia trachomatis

Paul Breslin

School: SEBS
Unit: New Brunswick
Project Title: Transforming Human Gut-Colonizing Lactobacillus to Produce Beta-Carotene

Li Cai

School: SOE
Unit: New Brunswick
Project Title: Role of topoisomerase IIbeta in neuronal migration

James O'Connor

School: NJMS
Unit: RBHS
Project Title: Cyclooxygenase Functions in Osteoclasts

Jeff Boyd

School: SEBS
Unit: New Brunswick
Project Title: Staphylococcus aureus environmental sensing and biofilm formation

Eric Klein

School: CCAS
Unit: Camden
Project Title: Laser-ablation synthesis of nanoparticles: innovations for antibiotic development