Welcome to the Biomedical Sciences Graduate Programs (New Brunswick/Piscataway)

Housed in the School of Graduate Studies at Rutgers University, the Biomedical Sciences programs in New Brunswick/Piscataway offer interdisciplinary PhD training in specialties including Biochemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Cell and Developmental Biology, Environmental Sciences Exposure Sciences, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Neuroscience, Pharmacology (with a Cancer Biology Concentration), Physiology, and Toxicology. Our MD/PhD program is an institutional partnership between Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers University New Brunswick campus and Princeton University.  In addition, we offer a Masters in Clinical and Translational Sciences, a Masters in Biomedical Science and an MS in Biomedical Sciences. 

The School of Graduate Studies provides personalized academic support for approximately 5,200 Rutgers students enrolled in more than 150 doctoral, master’s, and dual degree programs across New Brunswick/Piscataway and Newark. Collaborating with international partner institutions—from Brazil, Puerto Rico, France, and Croatia to China, Indonesia, and South Korea—and with over 25,000 alumni spread across the world, ours is a global commitment to advanced, cutting-edge research and scholarship. Our school ensures rigorous academic standards, fosters interdisciplinary collaboration between graduate faculty and students, and oversees innovative professional development initiatives that prepare graduate students to succeed in both academic and non-academic careers.

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Vrushank Bhatt is presenting at ASPET Annual meeting Wednesday, November 18, 2020. “Autophagy Inhibition Sensitizes Liver Kinase B1 (LKB1)-Deficient Kras-Driven Lung Tumors to MEK Inhibitor Trametinib”.

PhD Graduate Student Outcomes

• Average time to degree for biomedical PhD students at Rutgers: 5.7 years
• Average number of publications for biomedical PhD students at Rutgers: 1.4 first-author, 3 papers total

• Alumni Data from Academic Analytics (current position for n = 414 graduates from 2005-2019)

  49% for profit (e.g. pharma/biotech/consulting/science writing), 17% non-tenure track academic positions (e.g.lecturer, research professor, adjunct faculty), 11% tenure track academic positions, 11% postdoctoral fellows, 9% government, and 3% non-profit.

• For all events including career training and iJOBS activities as well as seminars and thesis defenses please visit our Google calendar and share it with your personal calendar.
• For some upcoming seminars on campus, click here.

• Publications:
  

   

  Urmimala Basu is first author on paper in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, October 2020. “Structure, mechanism, and regulation of mitochondrial DNA transcription initiation.”
  
  

  Brittany F. Karas is firth author on a paper in Aquatic Toxicology, October 2020. “Cisplatin alkylating activity in zebrafish causes resistance to chorionic degradation and inhibition of osteogenesis.”

  
  

• Grants and Fellowships
  
  Vrushank Bhatt was awarded a Mistletoe Research Fellowship in Oct 2020
  
  Yanira Gonzalez-Rodriguez was awarded NJ Commission on Cancer Research pre-doctoral fellowship " Regulation of DNA Repair and Cell Cycle Checkpoints by BRCA1 and BLM" January 2020.
  
  Sierra Swords was awarded a national Institues of Health pre-doctoral fellowship "The Role of RME-8 in Neuronal Health and Parkinson's Disease"in June 2020.
  
  Mai-uyen Nguyen was awarded a National Institutes of Health pre-doctoral fellowship “Functions of KAT2A and KAT2B in in intestinal homeostasis and colon cancer” in June 2020.
  
  

  Kristine Conde was awarded a University and Louis Bevier Dissertation Completion Fellowship  "17b-estradiol enhances KNDy neuronal sensitivity to ghrelin to alter reproduction, energy balance and thermoregulation in females” in March 2020.

  
  Christen Khella was awarded NJ Commission on Cancer Research pre-doctoral fellowship " HCK is a novel oncogenic driver of tumorigenesis in poor prognostic high-grade serous" January 2020.
  
  

  Victor Tan was awarded NJ Commission on Cancer Research pre-doctoral fellowship "Application of Rutgers CRISPR Base Editing Technology to Increase Bone Marrow Matching for Treatment of Leukemia" January 2020.
  
  

  Nisha Singh was awarded a State of New Jersey Commission on Spinal Cord Research fellowship "Role of Guanine-Based Purines After SCI" in January 2020.

  
  Breann Coffaro was awarded the Air Pollution Educational and Research Grant  "Ozone Reactions with Squalene: Particle Formation and Chemical Identification” in September 2019.
  
  Nofar Engelhard was awarded a State of New Jersey Commission on Spinal Cord Research fellowship "Characterizing a novel spinal cord population: role in both locomotive control and recovery from spinal cord injury" in May 2019.
  
  Valdir Cristovao Barth Junior was awarded a University and Louis Bevier Dissertation Completion Fellowship  "Reprogramming of Mycobacterium tuberculosis physiology through toxin-mediated ribosome stalling" in April 2019.
  
  Anton Omelchenko was awarded a New Jersey Commission on Brain Injury Research Predoctoral Fellowship “Exosome-based Delivery of RNAi Therapeutics to Target Traumatic Brain Injury” in April 2019.
  
  Anna Giarratana has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright Fellowship to study in Switzerland for one year in March 2019
  
  
• Awards and Internships
  
  Jenna Newman received the Victor Stollar Fellowship in 2019.
  
  Erika Davidoff, Biomedical Engineering won second place in the 3 Minute Thesis competition at Rutgers in March 2019.
  
  Praveen Bommrareddy did an internship at Regeneron in the summer of 2018
  
  Victor Tan did an internship at Celgene in the summer of 2018.
  
  Jenna Newman did an internship at Cellularity in the summer of 2018.
  
  Liam Turk did an internship at Aleon Pharma in the summer of 2018.
  
  Larry Cheng did an internship at Defined Health in the summer of 2018.
  
  Caroline Pantazis has been awarded an Eagleton Institute of Politics Fellowship in May 2018 and was also selected to participate in AAAS Catalyzing Advocacy in Science and Engineering in Febrauary 2018.
  
  
  
  
  PhD Alumni News:
  Some recent PhD graduates
  Yuanwang Pang is a postdoc at NYU.
  Aliza Rubenstein is a postdoc at Mt. Sinai
  Almin Lalani is a postdoc at the National Cancer Institute.
  Anna Hader is a postdoc at Johnson & Johnson.
  Dharm Patel is a project manager in Scientific Affairs at Leo Pharmaceuticals.
  Chenchao Gao is a Clinical Regulatory Affairs Specialist at Seattle Genetics.
  Alexandra Walczak is the Supervisory Laboratory Operations Coordinator at Rutgers Divison of Life Sciences.

  Lisheng Zhou is a Bioinformaticist II iCarbonX
  Eva Nelly Rubio is at Celgene as Scientist I.
  Serom Lee is an Associate Consultant at Defined Health, a Cello Health business.
  Myka Ababaon has a job at Caudex as a Trainee Medical Writer.
  Kathryn Drzewiecki is a project manager at Early Charm Ventures.
  Jon Brzezinksi is working at Tiberend Strategic Advisors as an Account Executive.

• Archives

• JMBGSA Picture Gallery
  
• JMBGSA Pictures on Facebook
• NeuroConnections Picture Gallery
• GSBS Convocation Picture Gallery 2015
• GSBS Graduation Award Dinner Gallery 2016