Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

Student Information
Student Application Deadline:
COB: Monday, May 6, 2024

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

Program Start date: Monday, June 3, 2024

2024 Application and Program Guidelines
SSRP Student Application	Program Guidelines

APPLICATION PROCESS

EVALUATION CRITERIA:

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.

PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS:

All students participating in the Summer Research Program are required to complete the Collaborative IRB Training Initiative (CITI) Basic Course online, available at: collaborative-institutional-training-initiative-citi

All students participating are required to take Laboratory/Biological/BBP Safety Training. Rutgers Environmental Health & Safety will advise on training requirements Rutgers Environmental Health & Safety Office

If vertebrate animals are involved, please complete the actions on the attached document: SSRP Student IACUC Checklist

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.

Duration of projects are eight-week. Students who have any additional academic or research activities (part-time or full-time) outside of the SSRP are not eligible to participate.

NJMS OFFICE OF RESEARCH 2024 SSRP PROJECTS Students approved to work on funded projects will receive a stipend in the amount of $3000 (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	Symptomatic Cholelithiasis - An Intervention	Clinical	Funded
3		Steven W. Levison, PhD	Pharmacology	Intranasal LIF Rx to Improve Neurological Recovery From Repeated Intermittent Hypoxic Episodes in Neonatal Mice	Laboratory / Behavioral	Funded
4	X	Keri E. Lunsford, MD, PhD, FACS	Surgery	Association of Pre-Transplant Immune Dysfunction with Early Mortalify After Liver Transplant	Clinical / Laboratory	Funded
5		Ping-Hsin Chen, PhD	Family Medicine	Violence Outreach Intervention and Community Education (VOICE) Program	Behavioral	Funded
6		Nina E. Glass, MD, FACS	Surgery	Clinical Research in Acute Care Surgery	Clinical	Funded
7	X	James K. Liu, MD	Neurological Surgery	Surgical Outcomes After Endoscopic Endonasal Skull Base Surgery in the Pediatric Population	Clinical	Funded
8	X	James K. Liu, MD	Neurological Surgery	Microscopic Vs. Endoscopic Resection of Tuberculum Sellae Meningiomas	Clinical	Funded
9		James K. Liu, MD	Neurological Surgery	Outcomes After Microsurgical Resection of Sphenoid Wing Meningiomas	Clinical	Funded
10	X	J. Patrick O'Connor, PhD	Orthopaedics	Control of Skeletal Maintenance and Regeneration by Inflammatory Lipid Mediators	Laboratory	Funded
11		Katsunori Sugimoto, PhD	Microbiology	Structure and Functional Relationship of Protein Kinase ATM That Controls DNA Damage Response and Telomere Length	Laboratory	Funded
12	X	Francisco Alvarado, MD	Surgery	Quality Improvement Projects In Trauma Patients With Substance Use Disorder	Clinical	Funded
13		Hee-Sook Kim, PhD	Microbiology	A Genome-Wide Overexpression Screen to Identify Proteins That Inhibit the Growth of Trypanosoma Brucei, the Causative Parasite of Human and Animal African Hypanosomiasis	Laboratory	Funded
14		Jason H. Yang, PhD	Microbiology	Macrophage Immunometabolism in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Control	Laboratory	Funded
15		Alex Wong, MD / Edward S. Lee, MD	Surgery	Effect of Retinoic Acid Therapy on Established Post-Surgical Lymphedema	Laboratory	Funded
16	X	Sylvia Christakos, PhD	Microbiology	Nutrigenomics of Intestinal Vitamin D Action	Laboratory	Funded
17		Stanley H. Weiss, MD	Medicine	Long-Term Cohort Project Studying Drug Users and Related Groups	Clinical / Laboratory / Behavioral	Funded
18		Miriam Bocarsly, PhD	Pharmacology	Examining Behavioral and Neural Overlaps In Binge Eating and Alcohol Consumption	Laboratory	Funded
19		Joanelle Bailey, MD, MPH	Surgery	Evaluating Awareness of Patient Civil Rights in Trauma Bay Interactions	Clinical	Funded
20	X	Alice Chu, MD	Orthopaedics	Factors Affecting Compliance With Scoliosis Bracing	Clinical / Behavioral / Other	Funded
21	X	Wei Wei Zhang, MD	Surgery	Intervention Bundle for Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) Prevention in Surgical Patients	Clinical	Funded
22	X	Sophie Astrof, PhD	Cell Biology	Genetic and Molecular Mechanisms of Congenital Heart Disease	Laboratory	Funded
23	X	Sheldon S. Lin, MD	Orthopaedics	Effect Of Topical Vanco Upon Diabetic Bone Healing	Laboratory	Funded

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Student Information Student Application Deadline: COB: Monday, May 6, 2024

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

Program Start date: Monday, June 3, 2024

Students approved to work on funded projects will receive a stipend in the amount of $3000

(no additional projects outside of current postings will be accepted)

Nisha Narula, MD

Surgery

Steven W. Levison, PhD

Pharmacology

Keri E. Lunsford, MD, PhD, FACS

Surgery

Ping-Hsin Chen, PhD

Family Medicine

Nina E. Glass, MD, FACS

Surgery

James K. Liu, MD

Neurological Surgery

James K. Liu, MD

Neurological Surgery

James K. Liu, MD

Neurological Surgery

J. Patrick O'Connor, PhD

Orthopaedics

Katsunori Sugimoto, PhD

Microbiology

Hee-Sook Kim, PhD

Microbiology

Jason H. Yang, PhD

Microbiology

Alex Wong, MD / Edward S. Lee, MD

Surgery

Sylvia Christakos, PhD

Microbiology

Stanley H. Weiss, MD

Medicine

Miriam Bocarsly, PhD

Pharmacology

Joanelle Bailey, MD, MPH

Surgery

Alice Chu, MD

Orthopaedics

Wei Wei Zhang, MD

Surgery

Sophie Astrof, PhD

Cell Biology

Student Information
Student Application Deadline:
COB: Monday, May 6, 2024