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Low wages and pandemic gut staffing support for those with disabilities
Group homes and facilities that serve people with intellectual and developmental disabilities were hurting for staffers before the pandemic. Now the nationwide job crunch and pandemic pressures are making it even worse. Worker shortages across the health care spectrum...
Join NJ ACTS Special Populations Core 2021 Webinar Series on October 5th from 12-1 pm
Join Dr. Nir Eyal, DPhil and Henry Rutgers Professor of Bioethics & Director of the Center for Population-Level Bioethics as he discusses COVID Vaccine Prioritization In Low- and Middle-Income Countries May Justifiably Depart From High-Income Countries' Age...
NJ ACTS Clinical Research Management Webinar Series “Increase your Scholarly Productivity: Tools and Skills for Academic Researchers” – September 28 @ 1-2:30pm
Interested in Expanding your Research Activities and Scholarship? Join an interactive session and learn how to adapt strategies to increase your scholarly productivity. This is part of a three-part training series geared to the advancement of clinical and...
Pathways to Success in Biopharma: Virtual Graduate Summit and Career Expo – October 27-28, 2021
Want to hear from biopharmaceutical leaders and learn more about what it's like to work in the industry? PhRMA will be hosting a two-day, free virtual summit for graduate students, postdoctoral trainees, faculty, PhRMA member companies and other community partners to...
Newark nearly doubled its youth vaccination rate in two months. Here’s how
Newark boosted the share of vaccinated young people from 30% in July to 55% in September. Read the Full Article.
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Wei's article in Methods titled, "Model-based autoencoders for imputing discrete single-cell RNA-seq data." A cell is a fundamental unit in biology. Recent revolutionary biotechnology, single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq), has made it possible to...
Register for the 2021 NIH Virtual Grants Seminar!
You asked…so, here it is! Be one of the first to register for the Fall 2021 NIH Virtual Seminar on Program Funding and Grants Administration…FREE of charge! Mark your calendar for Monday, November 1 – Thursday, November 4. This event is designed to demystify the NIH...
Overdose deaths rising and may set record.
New Jersey experienced a record number of overdose deaths during the first half of this year, according to state data, and could surpass the all-time high number of drug-related fatalities recorded in 2020 if the current pattern holds. Between January and the end of...