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Dean's Research Awards Recognize Best Peer-reviewed Publications and Leading Faculty Mentors
The Dean’s Research and Faculty Mentoring Symposium on May 12 recognized faculty members and students who achieved best peer-reviewed publications in 2009 from research performed at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Two faculty members, chosen by junior faculty, were honored as the year’s top mentors. A scientific poster session also was held highlighting not only the work of the awardees but also of many of the researchers throughout the school.
Award Winners were: 
• Best Publication by a Graduate
Student: Yvette R. Pittman, PhD,
Dept. of Molecular
Genetics, Microbiology and Immunology
• Best Publication by a Graduate Student: Daria A. Gaykalova, PhD, Department of Pharmacology
• Best Publication by a Postdoctoral Fellow: Manjula Pandey, PhD, Department of Biochemistry
• Best Publication by Faculty -
Basic Sciences: Shengkan Victor Jin, PhD, associate professor
of Pharmacology
• Best Publication by a MD/PhD
Student: Peter Mazari, Department of Biochemistry
• Best Publication by a Resident: Amar Rewari, MD, Department of Radiation Oncology
• Best Publication by Faculty - Clinical
Sciences: M. Maral Mouradian, MD,
William Dow Lovett Professor of Neurology
The two faculty members who were nominated by junior faculty members and
selected by the
awards committee as recipients of the Mentoring Awards were:
• Norman H. Edelman Clinical Science
Mentoring Award: Bruce G. Haffty, MD, professor and chair of Radiation Oncology
• R. Walter Schlesinger Basic Science Mentoring Award: Aaron J. Shatkin, PhD, professor of Molecular Genetics, Microbiology and Immunology and director of the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine
About UMDNJ-ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL
As one of the nation’s leading comprehensive medical schools, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in education, research, health care delivery, and the promotion of community health. In cooperation with Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, the medical school’s principal affiliate, they comprise New Jersey’s premier academic medical center. In addition, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School has 34 other hospital affiliates and ambulatory care sites throughout the region.
As one of the eight schools of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jerseywith2,800 full-time and volunteer faculty, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School encompasses
22 basic science and clinical departments, hosts centers and institutes including The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, the Child Health Institute of New Jersey, the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, the Environmental andOccupational Health Sciences Institute, and the Stem Cell Institute of NewJersey. The medical school maintains educational programs at the undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate levels for more than 1,500 students on its campuses in New Brunswick, Piscataway, and Camden, and provides continuing education courses for health care professionalsand community education programs. To learn more about UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, log on to rwjms.umdnj.edu. Find our fan page at http://www.Facebook.com/RWJMS and follow us on Twitter www.twitter.com/UMDNJ_RWJMS.
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