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Student Application Deadline:
COB: Monday, May 4, 2026

Note: Applications submitted for review does not require signatures. 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 1, 2026

2026 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 Ms. Samantha Amorino: sa3037@njms.rutgers.edu and copy Ms. Andreca Frater: af734@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 encouraged 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 incoming 1st, and rising 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 2026 SSRP PROJECTS

  FILLED FACULTY MENTOR DEPARTMENT PROJECT TITLE PROJECT TYPE
1     X Ethan Cowan, MD, MS Emergency Medicine Doxy-PEP: Emergency Department Patients' Perspectives on Doxycycline Post-Exposure Prophylaxis Behavioral
2     X Cherisse Berry, MD FACS Surgery Health Equity in the Emergency Trauma Care_ Analysis of Disparities in the Pre-Hospital Emergency Trauma Care System Clinical
3     X Kenneth Yan, MD, PhD Surgery Characterization of the Microbiome Related to Head and Neck Pathologies Clinical/Laboratory
4

     X

 Kenneth Yan, MD, PhD Surgery Efficacy of Superior Laryngeal Nerve Blocks For Cough Management Clinical
5     X Joanelle Bailey, MD, MPH Surgery Department of a Trauma Chronic Stress Burden (TCSB) Score Using Single-Center Trauma Registry Data Clinical
6

     X

 Keri Lunsford, MD, PhD, FACS Surgery Association of Pre-Transplant Immune Dysfunction Clinical/Lab
7

 

     X

 Ping-Hsin Chen, PhD Family Medicine Violence Outreach Intervention and Community Education VOICE Program Behavioral
8

    

   X

 

 Nina Glass, MD, FACS Surgery Clinical Research in Acute Care Surgery Clinical
9

 

   X

 

 Katsunori Sugimoto, PhD Microbiology Structure-Guided Eneineering of ATM Dimer Interface To Dissect Functional Allostery Laboratory and Computer Analysis
10

    

    X

 

Stanley Weiss, MD and Daniel Rosenblum, MD

 

Medicine

 

 Long-Term Cohort Project Studying Drug Users and Related Groups Clinical/Laboratory/Behavioral
11      X J.Patrick O'Connor, PhD Orthopaedics Control of Skeletal Maintenance and Regeneration by Inflammatory Lipid Mediators Laboratory
12      X  Yingda Xie, MD  Medicine Imaging Signatures of Early Tuberculosis Clinical
13     X Yingda Xie, MD  Medicine Transmission links and clinical spectrum of exhaled Mycobacterium tuberculosis Clinical
14      X Jason H. Yang, PhD Microbiology Bioenergetic Regulation Of Virulence in Enteropathogenic Bacteria  Laboratory
15      X Nikhat Parveen Microbiology Study Of Tick-Borne Diseases, Syphilis, P. Aeruginosa, and Analysis Of Samples After Treatment In Vitro Or Recovered From Mice Laboratory
16    X   Pratik A Shukla, MD Radiology Identifying Disparities Surrounding Access to Minimally Invasive Treatment Options For Women Suffering From Uterine Fibroids  Other
17      X Susan E. Pories, MD, FACS Surgery The Hope Library: Storytelling as Psychosocial Support for Cancer Patients Clinical
18     X Cynthia Santos, MD

Emergency Medicine

 Emergency Department Alternatives to Opioids Program, Incorporating Innovative Strategies to Enhance Training and Utilization of Pharmacological and Alternative Pain Management Techniques Clinical
19     X Cynthia Santos, MD Emergency Medicine Evaluation of a Multi-Entry Point Community Based Model for MOUD initiation and Continuity of Care Using an Opioid Response Team   Clinical
20      X Alex K. Wong, MD OBGYN Therapeutic Lymphatic Regeneration By Retinoic Acid Derivatives Laboratory
21     X Francisco Alvarado, MD Surgery Evaluating 1-Year Follow-Up of After Implementing Behavioral Health Guidelines At A Pediatric Trauma Center Clinical
22     X Ioana Carcea, MD Pharmacology Physiology and Neuroscience Susceptibility of Glucose Regulation to Social Isolation Laboratory
23    X Nicholas Bessman, PhD Medicine Understanding Biased EGFR Signaling In Intestinal Inflammation, Colitis and Colorectal Cancer Laboratory
24    X Ziad C. Sifri, MD Surgery Clinical Mission Based Research in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Clinical
25     X Walter Zahorodny, PhD Pediatrics  Motor Deficits and Delays in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder  Other
26     X Fariha Sheikh Surgery Immersing Trainees In An Underserved Community and Evaluating The Affect On Their Clinical Training Clinical
27      X David Paglia, PhD Orthopaedics Postnatal Systemic Loss Of Cox2 Signaling Leads To Spinal Degeneration In A Mouse Model Laboratory
28     X Sheldon Lin, PhD Orthopaedics Effect Of Topical Vanco Upon Diabetic Bone Healing Laboratory
29     X Ying Xu Anesthesiology Role of PDE2A In Mitochondrial Dysfunction In Alzheimer’s Disease Laboratory/Behavioral
30     X Dane Parker, PhD Pathology and Laboratory Medicine  Role of Type III Interferons In The Pathogenesis of Staphylococcus Aureus Laboratory
31      X Alice Chu, MD Orthopaedics Pediatric Orthopaedics Research Clinical