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MEDICINE
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Benjamin F. Crabtree, PhD
, professor
of family medicine and community
health and chief, division of research,
Department of Family Medicine and
Community Health, a three-year,
$1,905,547 grant (1R01CA176545-01A1)
for "PCMH Implementation Strategies:
Implications for Cancer Survivor Care."
·
Estela Jacinto, PhD
, associate professor
of biochemistry and molecular biology,
a four-year, $1,209,908 grant
(2R01GM079176-07A1) for "The
Regulation of Cell Metabolism and
Proliferation by mTOR Complex 2."
·
Jeffrey L. Laskin, PhD
, professor
of environmental and occupational
medicine, a one-year, $2,130,000 grant
(5U54AR055073-09) for "UMDNJ/Rutgers
University CounterACT Research Center of
Excellence (supplemental funding)."
·
Smita S. Patel, PhD
, professor of
biochemistry and molecular biology,
co-principal investigator, a four-year,
$1,534,868 grant (1R01GM111959-01)
for "Structural and Mechanistic Studies of
Self and Non-Self Recognition by RIG-I."
·
Jason Richardson, PhD
, associate profes-
sor of environmental and occupational
medicine, co-principal investigator, a five-
year, $1,788,750 grant (1R01ES021800-
01A1) for "Gene-Environment Interactions
in Neurodegeneration: Role of Efflux
Transporters."
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Monica J. Roth, PhD
, professor of
pharmacology, a four-year, $1,172,331
grant (1R01GM108487-01) for "MuLV p12
Function in Tethering and Integration."
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:
Research
News
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Terri G. Kinzy, PhD
, professor of
biochemistry and molecular biology,
a four-year, $1,532,404 grant
(2R01GM057483-14A1) for "Regulators
of Translation Elongation Factor eEF1A."
·
Helmut Zarbl, PhD
, professor of
environmental and occupational medi-
cine, a five-year, $8,745,000 grant
(2P30ES005022-27) for "Research Center
in Environmental Health Science."
By Kate O'Neill
Published Research
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Jeffrey L. Carson, MD
, Richard C. Reynolds
Professor of Medicine, chief, division of
general internal medicine, and provost,
Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences,
was the author of "Transfusion Threshold Of
7 g per Deciliter--The New Normal,"
published in the New England Journal of
Medicine
October 9, 2014:371(15):1459­
1461.
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Marc R. Gartenberg, PhD
, professor of
biochemistry and molecular biology, was
senior author of "Coordination of tRNA
Transcription with Export at Nuclear Pore
Complexes in Budding Yeast," published in
Genes & Development May 1, 2014:28(9):
959­970.
Miao Chen, PhD
, a postdoctoral
researcher in Dr. Gartenberg's laboratory,
was first author of the article.
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Salma K. Jabbour, MD
, associate professor
of radiation oncology, was the author of "Are
We Expanding Oligometastatic Non-Small-Cell
Lung Cancer Using Advanced Radiotherapeutic
Modalities?," e-published ahead of print
in the Journal of Clinical Oncology October
27, 2014.
The following is a representative
sample of articles by Robert Wood
Johnson Medical School researchers
published in leading biomedical
journals:
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Bruce G. Haffty, MD
, professor and chair,
Department of Radiation Oncology, was
senior author of "Radiation Field Design
in the ACOSOG Z0011 (Alliance) Trial,"
published in the Journal of Clinical
Oncology
November 10, 2014:32(32):
3600­3606.
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Shenkan Victor Jin, PhD
, associate
professor of pharmacology, was corres-
ponding author of "Niclosamide
Ethanolamine­Induced Mild Mitochondrial
Uncoupling Improves Diabetic Symptoms
in Mice," published online in Nature
Medicine
October 5, 2014:20:1263­1269.
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Mladen-Roko Rasin, MD, PhD
, assistant
professor of neuroscience and cell biology,
was senior author of "Temporally Defined
Neocortical Translation and Polysome
Assembly Are Determined by the RNA-
binding Protein Hu Antigen R Hd," pub-
lished in the Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences of the United States
of America
September 9, 2014:111(36):
E3815­3824 (e-published August 25,
2014).
Matthew L. Kraushar
, a medical
student in the MD/PhD program, was
first author of the article.
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Yufang Shi, DVM, PhD
, professor of
pharmacology, was senior author of
"Plasticity of Mesenchymal Stem Cells in
Immunomodulation: Pathological and
Therapeutic Implications," published in
Nature Immunology October 20,
2014:15(11):1009­1016.