Congratulations to CCIB PhD alum Matthew G. Niepielko, Ph.D.—honored with the Distinguished Graduate Award during Graduate School–Camden orientation and awarded tenure at Kean University. As the first Ph.D. graduate of CCIB (2014), Dr. Niepielko now serves as an Associate Professor of Computational Biology at Kean University and Program Coordinator for the Group Summer Scholars Research… continue reading
Backed by nearly $500,000 in NIH funding, Dr. Fu’s team is designing nucleic-acid nanoparticles to ferry genome-editing tools into hematopoietic (blood) stem cells. If successful, the approach could accelerate next-generation therapies for inherited disorders such as sickle-cell disease. The work takes place in Fu’s Bio-Mimetic Design and Nanoscience Lab at the Joint Health Sciences Center,… continue reading
The CCIB would like to congratulate Dr. Jinglin Fu for being awarded a research grant from the NIH! The Fu Lab plans to use this award to continue its research in hematopoietic stem cell (HSCs) editing and its potential to better treat blood disorders. Hematopoietic stem cells are cells that are mainly found in bone… continue reading
The Gonzalez Lab has just announced an exciting new research opportunity that they will be participating in! They have received funding from The German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research to work on their project “Examining Consumer Resource Exchange in Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecosystems”. This will allow them to collaborate with Dr. Amanda Subalusky from the… continue reading
The CCIB would like to congratulate Dr. Kwangwon Lee and the rest of the RU-C Driving Change team for being awarded the very prestigious Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Award. These awards are given to educational institutions that was committed building an equitable and inclusive environment within STEM programs for their students. The Rutgers University… continue reading
The CCIB would like to congratulate Dr. Maria Solesio for being awarded an NSF grant! The Solesio lab plans to use this award to better our understanding of the role of inorganic polyphosphate (polyP) in response to stressors in mammalian cells. The mechanisms that drive mitochondrial dysfunction are poorly understood, especially how those mechanisms work… continue reading
