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Student Application Deadline:
COB: Monday, May 9, 2023

Note: Applications submitted for review does not require signatures from Dr. Hill and mentors. Signatures are required when accepted to participate in the program. Students applying to multiple projects should submit separate applications for each project.

Program Start date:
Monday, June 5, 2023

2023 Application and Program Guidelines

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Application Process

  • This is a competitive program with a limited number of stipend funded projects. Students are required to complete an application, attach a copy current CV and include a brief statement indicating any prior research experience and state how it relates to the current project.  Completed applications should be emailed to Giovanna Comer: giovanna.comer@njms.rutgers.edu and copy Ms. Nathaline Elaine Anderson: andersna@njms.rutgers.edu.  The documents will be forwarded to the Faculty Mentor for review. If the student has met the qualifications for the project he/she will be contacted by the Faculty Mentor to schedule an interview. This process could take 2-3 weeks for completion. Students are encourage to call or email Faculty Mentor if they have any questions relating to current projects.

    NOTE:   Stipend support is available for a limited number of research projects. Stipend support is also reserved for 1st, and 2nd year medical students.. Undergraduate students in the combined BS/MD program may participate as a volunteer or thru work-study while fulfilling their credit requirements.

    • All students are required to submit an abstract summarizing their research and present their abstract/poster during the SSRP Closing Ceremony.
    • Students must be in good academic standing to participate.
    • Projects are to be carried out during an eight-week period in which the students must not have any other academic activities. Students cannot participate in this program while actively involved in another full-time program at the New Jersey Medical School.

NJMS OFFICE OF RESEARCH 2023 SSRP PROJECTS

Students approved to work on funded projects will receive a stipend in the amount of $2400
(no additional projects outside of current postings will be accepted)

  FILLED FACULTY MENTOR DEPARTMENT PROJECT TITLE PROJECT TYPE  
1   Nisha Narula, MD Surgery Symptomatic cholelithiasis Clinical Funded
2   Nisha Narula, MD Surgery Management of Pancreatitis and Targets for Improvement Clinical Funded
3   David Paglia, PhD Orthopaedics Postnatal systemic loss of Cox2 signaling Laboratory Funded
4   Steven Levison, PhD Pharmcology Intranasal LIF Rx to improve neurological recovery Laboratory/Behavioral Funded
5   Melissa Rogers, PhD Microbiology Imaging analysis of mice with regulatory BMP2 mutations Laboratory Funded
6   Keri Lunsford, MD, PhD, FACS Surgery Association of Pre-Transplant Immune Dysfunction Clinical/Lab Funded
7   Ping-Hsin Chen, PhD Family Medicine Violence Outreach Intervention and Community Education VOICE Program Behavioral Funded
8   Ronaldo P. Ferraris, PhD Pharmacology Metabolic Responses to Intestinal Luminal Nutrients in Bacteria Laboratory Funded
9   Nina Glass, MD, FACS Surgery Clinical Research in Acute Care Surgery Clinical Funded (3-openings)
10   Ozlem Gunal, MD, PhD Psychiatry CYFIP1 as a genetic risk factor and susceptibility to drug addiction Laboratory Volunteer
11   Robert Jyung, MD ENT-Otolaryngology Head/Neck Surgery Image analysis of epithelial migration of the tympanic membrane and ear canal Clinical Funded
12   James Liu, MD Neurological Surgery Surgical outcomes after endoscopic endonasal skull base surgery in the pediatric population Clinical Funded
13   James Liu, MD Neurological Surgery Microscopic vs. endoscopic resection of tuberculum sellae meningiomas Clinical Funded
14   James Liu, MD Neurological Surgery Outcomes after microsurgical resection of sphenoid wing meningiomas Clinical Funded
15   Sheldon Lin, MD Orthopaedic Effect of topical Vanco upon diabetic bone healing Laboratory Funded
16   J. Patrick O'Connor, PhD Orthopaedics Mechanisms and Methods for Promoting Bone Regeneration Laboratory Funded
17   Katsunori Sugimoto, PhD Microbiology Structure and functional relationship of protein kinase ATM that controls DNA damage response and telomere length Laboratory Funded
18   Yuan-Xiang Tao, PhD, MD Anesthesiology Role of dorsal root ganglion FTO an RNA demethylase in neuropathic pain Laboratory Funded
19   Jason Yang, PhD Center for Emerging Pathogens Next Generation Engineered Macrophage Immune Cell Therapies Laboratory Funded
20   Chaoyang Xue, PhD Microbiology Mechanism of echinocandin drug resistance in yeast pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans Laboratory Funded
21   Walter Zahorodny, PhD Pediatrics Prevalence and Characteristics of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Other Funded
22   Walter Zahorodny, PhD Pediatrics Autism Screening Project Clinical Funded
23   Stanley Weiss, MD Medicine Long-Term Cohort Project Studying Drug Users and Related Groups Clinical/Laboratory/Behavioral Funded

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   Folorunsho Edobor-Osula, MD, MPH Orthopaedics Tibial tubercle fracture study Clinical Funded
25   Yingda Xie, MD Medicine Harnessing the human antibody Clinical Funded
26   Yingda Xie, MD Medicine Computer aided point of care ultrasound for TB active case finding (POCUS-TB) Clinical Funded
27   Yingda Xie, MD Medicine Lifestyle and nutrition program in patients with latent tuberculosis (TB) infection and TB Diseases Clinical Volunteer
28   Humaira Chaudhry, MD Radiology Pilot Implementation of Student Volunteer Patient Navigator Program Clinical Volunteer