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Student Application Deadline:
COB: Monday, May 12, 2025

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 2, 2025

2025 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: comergi@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 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 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 2025 SSRP PROJECTS

Students approved to work on funded projects will receive a stipend in the amount of $3,000
(no additional projects outside of current postings will be accepted)

  FILLED FACULTY MENTOR DEPARTMENT PROJECT TITLE PROJECT TYPE  
1     X Nisha Narula, MD Surgery Surgical Ergonomics Clinical Funded
2     X Nisha Narula, MD Surgery Billing Data in Symptomatic Cholelithiasis Clinical Funded
3     X Ethan Cowan, MD, MS Emergency Medicine Safety and Efficacy of High Dose BUP Initiation in Fentanyl Positive Emergency Department Patients Clinical Funded
4   Cherisse Berry, MD FACS Surgery Health Equity in the Emergency Trauma Care_ Analysis of Disparities in the Pre-Hospital Emergency Trauma Care System Clinical Funded
5   Travis B Lear, PhD Pharmacology/Physiology/Neuroscience Investigating Proteolytic Regulation of Cellular Nutrient Sensing Mechanisms Laboratory Funded
6     X Kenneth Yan, MD, PhD Surgery Characterization of the Microbiome Related to Head and Neck Pathologies Clinical/Laboratory Funded
7      X Ying Xu, MD, PhD Anesthesiology Role of PDE2A in Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Alzheimer’s Disease Laboratory/Behavioral Funded
8   Joanelle Bailey, MD, MPH Surgery Emergency Department Screening for Intimate Partner Violence and Patient Perceptions of Care: A Pilot Study Clinical Funded
9   Joanelle Bailey, MD, MPH Surgery Evaluating Awareness of Patient Civil Rights in Trauma Bay Interactions Clinical Funded
10   Theresa Liyun Chang, PhD Microbiology, Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics Role of IFN epsilon in cancers Laboratory Funded
11   David Paglia, PhD Orthopaedics Postnatal systemic loss of Cox2 signaling Laboratory Funded
12   Steven Levison, PhD Pharmcology Intranasal LIF Rx To Improve Neurological Recovery from Repeated Intermittent Hypoxic Episodes in Neonatal Mice Laboratory/Behavioral Funded
13   Keri Lunsford, MD, PhD, FACS Surgery Association of Pre-Transplant Immune Dysfunction Clinical/Lab Funded
14   Ping-Hsin Chen, PhD Family Medicine Violence Outreach Intervention and Community Education VOICE Program Behavioral Funded
15   Nina Glass, MD, FACS Surgery Clinical Research in Acute Care Surgery Clinical

Funded

(Multiple Openings)
16   Sheldon Lin, MD Orthopaedics Effect of topical Vanco upon diabetic bone healing Laboratory Funded
17   Katsunori Sugimoto, PhD Microbiology Structural Hypervariation at Subtelomeric Regions Laboratory Funded
18   Chaoyang Xue, PhD Microbiology Mechanism of echinocandin drug resistance in yeast pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans Laboratory Funded
19   Stanley Weiss, MD Medicine Long-Term Cohort Project Studying Drug Users and Related Groups Clinical/Laboratory/Behavioral Funded
20   J.Patrick O'Connor, PhD Orthopaedics Control of Skeletal Maintenance and Regeneration by Inflammatory Lipid Mediators Laboratory Funded
21   Yingda Xie, MD  Medicine Imaging Signatures of Early TB Clinical/Laboratory Funded
22   Jason H. Yang, PhD Microbiology, Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics Systems and Synthetic Biology Analyses of Antibiotic Resistance Laboratory Funded
23   Vijay K. Yadav, PhD Center For Cell Signaling Effect of Taurine Gradient on Regulating Organ Health Laboratory Funded
24   Nikhat Parveen Microbiology, Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics Cloning of Treponema Pallidum Genes and Purification of Recombinant Proteins To Be Used For Generation of Antibodies In Mice Laboratory Funded
25      X Pratik A Shukla, MD Radiology Awareness of Uterine Artery Embolization as a Minimally Invasive Treatment Option for Patients with Symptomatic Uterine Fibroids Other Funded
26      X Susan E. Pories, MD, FACS Surgery The Hope Library: Storytelling as Psychosocial Support for Cancer Patients Clinical Funded
27   Alice Chu, MD Orthopedics Pediatric Orthopaedics Research Clinical Funded