Research Research Grants The National Institutes of Health awarded grants of $1 million or more to the following members of the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School faculty: • Jeffrey D. Laskin, PhD, professor of environmental and community medicine, and Jason Richardson, PhD, associate professor of environmental and community medicine, a five-year, $3,965,225 grant (1U01NS079249-01A1) for “Developing Drugs to Mitigate Parathion Intoxication.” • Kiran Madura, PhD, professor of pharmacology, a four-year, $1,203,916 grant (1R01GM104968-01) for “A Role for Protein Degradation in Nucleotide Excision-Repair.” • M. Maral Mouradian, MD, William Dow Lovett Professor of Neurology and director, Center for Neurodegenerative and Neuroimmunologic Diseases: a five-year, $2,223,995 grant (1R01AT006868-01A1) for “Synergistic Neuroprotective Mechanisms of Coffee Components in Parkinson’s Disease.” • Monica J. Roth, PhD, professor of pharmacology, a four-year, $1,172,331 grant (1R01GM108487-01) for “MuLV p12 Function in Tethering and Integration.” News By Kate O’Neill • Stephen C. Gale, MD, clinical assistant professor of surgery, was first author of “APOε4 Is Associated with Enhanced in Vivo Innate Immune Responses in Human Subjects,” published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology March 18, 2014, http:// dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaci.2014.01.032. • James S. Goydos, MD ’88, professor of surgery, was the author of “Who Should Be Offered a Sentinel Node Biopsy for Melanoma Less Than 1 mm in Thickness?,” published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology December 10, 2013:31(35):4385–4386. • Vassiliki Karantza, MD, PhD ’01, assistant professor of medicine and resident member, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, was senior author of “ERBB2 Overexpression Suppresses Stress-Induced Autophagy and Renders ERBB2-Induced Mammary Tumorigenesis Independent of Monoallelic Becn1 Loss,” published in Autophagy April 1, 2014:10(4):662–676. • Janice M. Mehnert, MD ’01, associate professor of medicine and resident member, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, was senior author of “Ipilimumab Administration in Patients with Advanced Melanoma and Hepatitis B and C,” published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology July 20, 2013:31(21): e370–372. • Gaetano T. Montelione, PhD, adjunct professor of biochemistry and molecular biology and resident member, Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, was senior author of “Protein NMR Structures Refined with Rosetta Have Higher Accuracy Relative to Corresponding X-ray Crystal Structures,” published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society February 5, 2014:136(5):1893–1906. • Vikas Nanda, PhD, associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology and resident member, Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, was senior author of “Self-assembly of Left- and RightHanded Molecular Screws,” published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society December 18, 2013:135(50):18762–18765. Fei Xu, PhD, a senior postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Nanda’s laboratory, was first author of the article. • Monica J. Roth, PhD, professor of pharmacology, was senior author of “Viral DNA Tethering Domains Complement Replication-Defective Mutations in the p12 Protein of MuLV Gag,” published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America June 4, 2013:110(23):9487–9492. • Alexey G. Ryazanov, PhD, professor of pharmacology, was senior author of “Germline Quality Control: Eef2k Stands Guard to Eliminate Defective Oocytes,” published in Developmental Cell March 10, 2014:28(5):561–572. • Steven M. Silverstein, PhD, professor of psychiatry, was senior author of “Inflammation and the Two-Hit Hypothesis of Schizophrenia,” published in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews January 2014:38:72–93. • Chi Kwan Tsang, PhD, adjunct assistant professor of pharmacology, and X. F. Steven Zheng, PhD, professor of pharmacology and resident member, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, were first author and senior author, respectively, of “Superoxide Dismutase 1 Acts as a Nuclear Transcription Factor to Regulate Oxidative Stress Resistance,” published in Nature Communications March 19, 2014:(5):3446. • Nancy A. Woychik, PhD, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, was senior author of “An RNA–seq Method for Defining Endoribonuclease Cleavage Specificity Identifies Dual Rrna Substrates for Toxin Mazf-Mt3,” published in Nature Communications April 8, 2014:5:3538. Jason M. Schifano, a PhD candidate in Dr. Woychik’s laboratory, was first author of the article. Published Research The following is a representative sample of articles by Robert Wood Johnson Medical School researchers published in leading biomedical journals: • Jeffrey L. Carson, MD, Richard C. Reynolds Professor of Medicine, chief, division of general internal medicine, and interim provost, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, was the author of “Blood Transfusion and Risk of Infection: New Convincing Evidence,” published in the Journal of the American Medical Association April 2, 2014:311(13):1293– 1294. 46 Robert Wood Johnson I MEDICINE