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New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Halkitis' article in AIDS and Behavior titled, "Correlates of PrEP Uptake Among Young Sexual Minority Men and Transgender Women in New York City: The Need to Reframe "Risk" Messaging and Normalize Preventative Health." Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)...
Rutgers Computing Resources Contribute to Historic COVID Research Collaboration
When 2020 began, the world’s fastest computing device was the Summit supercomputer, which performs 200 quadrillion floating-point operations per second (200 petaFLOPS). A few months later, a combination of private individuals and organizations like Rutgers had...
Teamwork Seminar Series: “Secrets of Successful Teamwork: What Can Academia Learn from Non-Academia?”
We are delighted to invite you to the second event in the Teamwork Seminar Series, "What Can Academia Learn from Non-Academia? Lessons from an Innovative Biotech Firm" on June 21st from 2:30-3:30 pm. See below for the registration information and to view the...
Allergic to sunscreen? Here’s what to do, according to a dermatologist.
As the days heat up, Hot Vax Summer is beckoning us to sprawl out with our friends by the pool, on the lawn, and wherever else we used to gather in the Before Time. But if we don’t want these long-awaited reunions leaving us with lovely, lobster-hued sunburns — which,...
Dental School Researcher Gets Approval to Begin Clinical Trials for Cancer Therapy
A company founded by Rutgers School of Dental Medicine researcher Scott Kachlany received U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval to begin a phase I clinical trial to treat cancer patients with a therapy based on Kachlany’s discovery that a protein produced by an...
NJACTS Community Engagement Core COVID-19 Resources
The situation around the current spread of COVID-19 is changing rapidly. We have compiled resource links for the general community highlighting local resources across New Jersey, ways to get involved, and mental and physical wellness. Visit our COVID-19 page for...
A new tool tracks health disparities in the U.S. — and highlights major data gaps
A coalition of researchers and advocates launched a tool they hope will fill some of those gaps: the Health Equity Tracker, a portal that collects, analyzes, and makes visible data on some of the inequities entrenched in U.S. medicine. Read the Full Article.
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Drs. Wei and Tian's article in Annals of Applied Statistics titled, "An empirical Bayes change-point model for transcriptome time-course data." Gene expression temporal patterns can reveal regulation networks. The transcriptome time-course experiment...