Wall of Honor
Recent awardees from the two training programs are highlighted.
Fellowships
(NIH F Grants)
Career and Research
(NIH K and R Grants)
Participants: PhD Students and Junior Postdoc Fellows
Timing: Weekly from September to December
Activities: Each week, fellows submit drafts of specific grant application components for peer review and comments by the grant coach. Fellows meet with the grant coach for 1-hour a week to discuss parts of the grant application, sponsored programs, peer review, NIH review groups and institutes, responding to peer review critiques, and submission of the final grant application in December.
Participants: Senior Postdoc Fellows and Faculty (Early and Middle Career)
Timing: Monthly
Activities: The Grant Writing Group meets once monthly to review Specific Aims pages for K and R grants. Participants receive copies of Aims pages the day before the meeting in order to read and prepare. Each Aims page is discussed for 10-15 min. This program fosters peer review among participants and greater awareness of diverse research programs across NJ ACTS.
Read more about our recent awardees
Chelsea Cary
PhD Student
Uteroplacental Vasculature and Fetal Growth after Plastic Particle Exposure
Scientist Highlight coming soon!
Kate Lubina
PhD Student
Scientist Highlight coming soon!
Sean Stratton
PhD Student
Creating Pb Risk Mitigation Using Source Apportionment in an EJ Community
Scientist Highlight coming soon!
Zakiyah Henry
PhD Student
The Tissue-Specific Functionality of the Farnesoid X Receptor in NASH Development
Scientist Highlight coming soon!
Dr. Stephanie Shiau
Assistant Professor
Maternal Inflammation in Relation to Offspring Epigenetic Aging and Development
Scientist Highlight coming soon!
Dr. Hiroko Nobuta
Assistant Professor
Spatial and Single Cell Transcriptomics Approach to Understand Neuron-Oligodendrocyte Communication in Human Synaptic Development
Dr. Chintan Dave
Assistant Professor
Evaluating the Role of Multimorbidity in Modulation Medication Effects in Older Adults
Dr. Modupe Coker
Assistant Professor
HPV, HIV, and Oral Microbiota Interplay in Nigerian Youth
Dr. Tetsuya Nakamura
Assistant Professor
The Function of Gli Proteins in the Specification of Ossification Pathways in Pectoral Girdle Development and Evolution
Dr. Zorimar Rivera-Nunez
Assistant Professor
Emerging Mycoestrogens: Impacts on Placental and Early Childhood Growth
and
Genetic Variation in the Placental Barrier: Impact on Child Environmental Health Studies (ECHO)
Dr. Nicole Torosin
Postdoctoral Associate
3D Genome Organization and Gene Expression in Drosophila
Dr. Outi Keinaenen
Postdoctoral Fellow
Harnessing PET to Study the In Vivo Fate and Health Effects of Micro- and Nanoplastics
Dr. Navaneeth Narayanan
Clinical Associate Professor
Gut Microbiome and Pharmacokinetic Variability in Tuberculosis and Diabetes
Scientist Highlight coming soon!
Dr. Ley Cody Smith
Postdoctoral Fellow
Estrogen Receptor Signaling, Inflammation and Ozone Toxicity
Dr. Shuo Xiao
Assistant Professor
An Ovary-on-a-Chip to Identify Ovarian Toxicity
Dr. Luigi Brunetti
Associate Professor
Mechanistic Evaluation of Melatonin as a Protectant against Antibiotic Associated Kidney Injury
Kaiden Power
PhD Student
Role of a NIMA-related Kinase in Neuronal Microtubule Stability and Transport
Carolyn Kinkade
PhD Student
Exposure to Zearalenone and its Impact on Maternal and Fetal Health
Danielle Kozlosky
PhD Student
Impact of the Placenta Barrier on Fetal Nutrition and Growth Restriction
Dr. Troy Roepke
Associate Professor
Sex Differences in CRH Signaling in the ovBNST Underlie Effects of Chronic Stressors
Dr. Phoebe Stapleton
Assistant Professor
Microvascular Mechanisms of Growth Restriction after Environmental Toxicant Exposure
Nimit Shah
PhD Student
Barriers and Predictors of Physical Fitness among Volunteer Firefighters
Dr. Kimberly Wiersielis
Postdoctoral Fellow
Interaction of Perinatal Organophosphate Flame Retardants and Adult Chronic Stress on Cognitive Processing