Biomedical Sciences

Thank you to the MBGSO for putting on a great graduate student virtual symposium in March 2021 and congratulations to the presentation winners!  All of the presentations were very impressive and we thank everyone who participated and attended for making the event a success. 

Oral presentations:

1st - Nydia P. Chang 

2nd - Gina M. Castellano

3rd - Robert A. Dowden

Poster presentations:

1st (tie) - Pooja Khanna and Esther Mezhibovsky

2nd - Uyen Nguyen

All schools, units, and offices at the university are working tirelessly to prepare for our Return to Rutgers for Fall 2021. Below is a list of helpful links to additional information, which we will be continuously updating.

Congratulations to Alvin Crespo on his first-author publication "Interspecies recombination has driven the macroevolution of cassava mosaic begomoviruses." The paper was accepted for publication in the Journal of Virology and was posted online on June 9, 2021. 

Congratulations to Rukia Henry on receiving the New Jersey Commission on Cancer research award. Rukia's project is entitled:  "Elucidating the Role of LYN Src Kinase in DNA repair".

Congratulations to Stephania Guzman who was selected as a Scholar for the 2021 Scientist Mentoring & Diversity Program for Biotechnology

On Thursday, May 13^th the School of Graduate Studies celebrated the 2021 Merit and Achievement Award winners.

Dear Members of the Rutgers–New Brunswick and RBHS Communities, 

As Dean Jerome Kukor retires after many years of dedicated service, we are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Henrik Pedersen as Interim Dean of the School of Graduate Studies (SGS) effective July 1, 2021.

Congratulations to the 2020-2021 scholarship recipients of the Aaron Shatkin Graduate Student Award.

The Shatkin Awards are given annually to Ph.D. students in the biomedical sciences for excellent academic and research achievement. The scholarship is named after Aaron Shatkin, who was the founding director of the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine. Congratulations to this year's awardees: