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Rutgers Community Health Center Celebrates New Location with Ribbon-Cutting
Committed to continuing its mission to serve Newark’s most vulnerable citizens, Rutgers Community Health Center (RCHC), a full-service primary care clinic, celebrated its move to a newly-renovated location on the New Community Corporation campus with a...
NJ ACTS Team Science Core Symposium
The Team Science core will host a symposium on Tuesday January 28, 2020 entitled “Academic Careers in the Era of Team Science.” Registration will be open to all interested parties across the consortium, including trainees, faculty, students, and administrators. To...
NJ ACTS Announces the 2019 Partnership and Innovation Accelerator Pilot Grant Program (PIAP) Awardees
NJ ACTS is excited to announce the awardees of the 2019 Partnership and Innovation Accelerator Pilot Grant Program (PIAP), Usha Ramachandran, MD and Helmut Zarbl, PhD. The New Jersey Alliance for Clinical and Translational Science (NJ ACTS) Community Engagement Core...
Co-addiction of meth and opioids hinders treatment
Study finds meth undermines success in treatment for opioid-use disorder. Clinician observes link between patients treated for opioid-use disorder and use of methamphetamines. Read more about it in the study published in the Journal of Substance Abuse...
How $29M grant will help Rutgers consortium translate research into patient care faster
The New Jersey Alliance for Clinical and Translational Science, an academic consortium at the Rutgers Institute for Translational Medicine and Science, celebrated its $29 million grant from the National Institutes of Health with a health care-oriented event last week...
Improving Health Equity in New Jersey
Residents of two Trenton zip codes can expect to live to about 74 years old on average, but in neighboring communities life expectancies can be more than a decade longer. A new study by the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research will explore what...
Anti-Opioid Toolkit in NJ Now Includes Outreach Vans, Special Emergency Response
NJ Spotlight reports outreach vans and emergency responders trained in new treatments are part of the new anti-addiction toolkit that providers are using to expand access to opioid treatment in New Jersey.
How translational medicine could revolutionize health care in NJ
A $33 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to three New Jersey institutions is helping the state get one step closer to making this practice, called personalized — or translation medicine — a reality, taking medical breakthroughs from the bench to the...