Biomedical Sciences

By: Samantha Avina

By Thushara Nethramangalath

By Natalie Losada

By: Gina Sanchez

Congratulations to Branden Sanabria on receiving an NIH F31 award for the project entitled: "The Role of Corticostriatal Microcircuitry in Sensorimotor Integration".

Thank you to the MBGSO for putting on a great graduate student virtual symposium in March 2021 and congratulations to the presentation winners!  All of the presentations were very impressive and we thank everyone who participated and attended for making the event a success. 

Oral presentations:

1st - Nydia P. Chang 

2nd - Gina M. Castellano

3rd - Robert A. Dowden

Poster presentations:

1st (tie) - Pooja Khanna and Esther Mezhibovsky

2nd - Uyen Nguyen

All schools, units, and offices at the university are working tirelessly to prepare for our Return to Rutgers for Fall 2021. Below is a list of helpful links to additional information, which we will be continuously updating.

Congratulations to Alvin Crespo on his first-author publication "Interspecies recombination has driven the macroevolution of cassava mosaic begomoviruses." The paper was accepted for publication in the Journal of Virology and was posted online on June 9, 2021. 

Congratulations to Rukia Henry on receiving the New Jersey Commission on Cancer research award. Rukia's project is entitled:  "Elucidating the Role of LYN Src Kinase in DNA repair".

Congratulations to Stephania Guzman who was selected as a Scholar for the 2021 Scientist Mentoring & Diversity Program for Biotechnology