We want to congratulate the RISE 2022 scholar, Joy Akeju, for their recent publication in GBE. Their article can be found HERE.
By Joycelyn Radeny
Join us on-campus for an introductory half-day training/workshop/networking event for university-based researchers & innovators at Rutgers, NJIT, Stevens, Rowan and Princeton to help scientists and researchers shift the mindset from the technology to the people who would benefit. Innovation-minded teams & individuals are welcome to attend including faculty, graduate students, post-docs, research staff, and undergrad students. Networking Lunch will be provided where you can meet with key leaders to get your questions answered about Intellectual Property, innovation & entrepreneurship, and possibly identify new team members to participate in an upcoming I-Corps regional program. Come learn about various ways to get started with innovation! Register by May 29.
IN PERSON ONLY 185 South Orange Ave, Medical Science Building Room B619
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Teva is a global pharmaceutical leader, with a full spectrum of products from generics to biosimilar medicines to over the counter treatments. For over 120 years, Teva’s commitment to bettering health has never wavered. Today, the company’s global network of capabilities enables its 37,000 employees across 60 markets to push the boundaries of scientific innovation and deliver quality medicines to help improve health outcomes of millions of patients every day.
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iJOBS Virtual Site Visit: Johnson & Johnson
Come learn about career opportunities for PhD level professionals at Johnson & Johnson. J&J is a leading pharmaceutical company with drug pipelines in infectious disease, cardiovascular, immunology, neuroscience, and oncology. We will hear from research scientists as well as those who have transitioned off the bench to contribute to the biopharma industry using the transferrable skills they gained in graduate school.
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Dr. Kevan Shokat will deliver the inaugural Morris-Inouye Lecture at 4 PM on April 23rd in the Main Lecture Hall of Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in Piscataway. His lecture is titled “Overcoming the Undruggable Nature of the Most Common Human Oncogene, K-Ras”. A reception will be held in the Great Hall will follow.
Dr. Shokat’s research focuses on the discovery of small molecule tools and drug candidates that target kinases, GTPases, and helicases. His laboratory utilizes the tools of synthetic organic chemistry, protein engineering, structural biology, biochemistry, and cell biology.
Dr. Shokat is currently an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Professor in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology at the UCSF and Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the UC Berkeley. He is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Congratulations to the winners at the MBGSO Graduate Student Symposium!
Oral Presentation
First Place: Kiranmayi Vemuri
Second Place: Kyle Flannery
Poster Presentation
First Place: Leelabati Biswas
Second Place: Robert Madromootoo
Third Place: Reem Alatrash
Per a recent side letter agreement between the University and the AAUP-AFT, the University is pleased to announce the launch of a short-term travel grant program for Teaching Assistants (“TAs”) and Graduate Assistants (“GAs”), which will be administered by the graduate schools.
Take your manuscript figures to the next level! Join us for a free workshop on creating better publication quality figures in BioRender. In this webinar, learn actionable tips and techniques for designing figures that will impress your manuscript reviewers.
Colgate-Palmolive provides consumer products globally and employs PhD level scientists in many roles. Come meet those employees and learn how they have applied the various research skills learned in graduate school and postdocs to the consumer industry and tour the facility and labs.
IN PERSON ONLY 909 River Road, Piscataway, NJ
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