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Spinout from Zemer Gitai lab announces seed funding and hiring of CEO
Funding will advance discovery of novel anti-infectives addressing antimicrobial resistance ArrePath, a drug discovery spinout founded by Zemer Gitai, the Edwin Grant Conklin Professor of Biology and professor of molecular biology at Princeton University, has...
Too soon to downgrade COVID-19 to ‘endemic’ status?
The COVID-19 pandemic is not over in New Jersey, regardless of how eager elected officials — and the public — are to put the past two years behind them, according to a panel of experts that included a former state epidemiologist. “I personally can’t say that we’re in...
Living with COVID: How the pandemic transformed the workplace in NJ.
“The pandemic has really transformed work. It’s transformed lifestyles. It’s transformed how we basically live,” says Rutgers University Professor James Hughes, dean emeritus of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. COVID-19 sparked the Great...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Gaur's article in the Pediatric Pulmonology titled, "E-cigarette or vaping product use associated lung injury (EVALI) in the time of COVID-19: A clinical dilemma." Vaping is the process in which liquid substances such as nicotine or...
Meet the Underdog of Senior Care
The Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), funded by Medicare and Medicaid, has quietly succeeded in enabling some older Americans to age in place. Research has shown that PACE programs reduce hospitalization, emergency room visits and nursing home...
Living with COVID: Long COVID becoming pediatric ‘public health crisis’.
It was early in the pandemic when Dr. Lawrence Kleinman, the vice chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Rutgers University, started paying attention to the unexpected impacts of COVID-19 infection in kids. Studies coming out of Europe showed that some young...
Living with COVID: Far more treatment options now, but not always easy access
And for oral COVID-19 therapies, timing is critical Studies show one drug, Pfizer’s Paxlovid, is nearly 90% effective at keeping mildly or moderately infected patients out of the hospital. Doctors believe this medication — taken over five days at home, similar to...
Two-Thirds of New Jerseyans Agree With Lifting School Mask Mandate.
As masks officially come off today for teachers and children, a majority of New Jerseyans agree with lifting the childcare and school settings mask mandate, according to the latest Rutgers-Eagleton Poll. Forty-six percent “strongly agree” with Governor Murphy’s...