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Register now for the NJ ACTS BERD Workshop Training on 11-17-2022 at 1pm!
Applied Survival Analysis for Biomedical Researchers Target Audience: Biomedical researchers who work with survival data, including faculty members, students, post-docs, and others who need to work with this type of data. All are welcome. Presented by: Dirk Moore, PhD...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. MacDowell's article in Current Opinion in Neurobiology titled, "A Goldilocks theory of cognitive control: Balancing precision and efficiency with low-dimensional control states." The world is rich; we are faced with a wide variety of sensory inputs and...
How we can help children overcome adversity
Five questions with Yanping Jiang, a researcher at the Rutgers Institute for Health, who has studied how to help children overcome adversity. Fostering a strong relationship between children and their caregivers and, more broadly, with their community can help them...
How the Pandemic Impacted America’s Youth Mental Health Crisis.
Even as the need for quality mental health care has climbed sharply among young people in recent years, access to services has gone in the other direction. A 2019 study found that of the 7.7 million children and teens in the U.S. with at least one treatable mental...
Can I Get the Flu From Touching Surfaces? Rutgers Researcher Says No.
In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, the coronavirus was everywhere – stuck to our cell phone screens, smeared on our mail, dangling from doorknobs, even clinging to our cereal boxes. Except that it wasn’t. Despite public health guidance suggesting surfaces...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Peck's article in the Annals of Surgery Open: Perspectives on Surgical History, Education, and Clinical Approaches titled, "Use of a New Prevention Model in Acute Care Surgery: A Population Approach to Preventing Emergency Surgical Morbidity and...
Health department medical detectives find 84% of U.S. maternal deaths are preventable
Data compiled by the CDC highlights multiple weaknesses in the system of care for new mothers, from obstetricians who are not trained (or paid) to look for signs of mental trouble or addiction, to policies that strip women of health coverage shortly after they give...
Navigating the IND process for Academic Investigators. 11-9-22, 1-2pm
Interested in Expanding your Knowledge in Clinical and Translational Sciences? The New Jersey Alliance for Clinical and Translational Sciences (NJ ACTS) is inviting you to attend the first session of our three-part Clinical Research Management Collaborative Training...