News and Events
 October 23, 2007
Stem Cell Institute of NJ Ground Breaking
Governor Jon S. Corzine joined state and local dignitaries for the groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday of the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey and unveiling of the Christopher Reeve Pavilion.
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Click here to view the Stem Cell Groundbreaking Ceremony Video
October 17, 2007
George and Lily Boxer Memorial Lecture
Features
 Renowned Cell Biologist
Piscataway – Peter J. Novick, PhD, a professor of cell biology at Yale University School of Medicine, will present “Regulation of Membrane Traffic by Rab GTPase Cascades” at the 2007 George and Lily Boxer Memorial Lecture on Wednesday, October 17, at 4 pm, in the Main Auditorium at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 675 Hoes Lane, in Piscataway. The Boxer Memorial Lecture series is a free public program offered by the department of pathology and laboratory medicine. Details...
 October 6, 2007
Innovations & Trends in Cardiovascular Care
Presented by Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. Details...
September 12, 2007
Center for Clinical & Translational Sciences Sympsium
CCTS presents a symposium on Translational Research Collaborations - Current Studies and Future Opportunities. Click Here to View the video recording through RWJMS iTunesU.
August 10, 2007
You are cordially invited to attend the
Class of 2011 White Coat Ceremony
Details...
July 21, 2007
The Boomer Esiason Foundation Pro Sports Challenge
To Raise Funds in Support of Research
– Celebrity Golf Exhibition Match on July 21 –
The UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School’s Division of Pulmonology and Cystic Fibrosis and the Cystic Fibrosis Center at The Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital will team up with the Boomer Esiason Foundation at a golf exhibition on July 21 to raise funds for the fight against Cystic Fibrosis, a life-threatening genetic respiratory disease. Flier... News Release...
June 26, 2007
“Quarters for the Cure” Campaign to Fight Cancer Wraps with End of School Year
--Nearly $24,000 Raised for Research, Patient Care and Programs at CINJ--
Nearly $24,000 has been collected by The Cancer Institute of New Jersey Foundation (CINJF) following the recent “Quarters for the Cure” campaign, which had students collect pocket change to support cancer research, patient care, education and community outreach at CINJ. Details...
May 3, 2007
"RWJMS student recipients of Corporation for National and Community Service, Learn and Serve Higher Education Minigrants Present Symposia on Service Learning,"
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School* *received a "Learn* *and Serve
Higher Education" subgrant from Morehouse School of Medicine's Center for Community Health and Service Learning. It helped us establish a community
service mini grant program to support extracurricular student-initiated community-based health projects. more...
February 10, 2007
Governor Jon S. Corzine Signed Bill Declaring Rett Syndrome Awareness Day
Ceremonial at the Child Health Institute of New Jersey in Conjunction with Special Rett Syndrome Clinic more...
January 31, 2007
Artiss Powell Memorial Lecture
Update on Memory Disorders and Alzheimer’s Disease Treatment
Speaker: Tiffany Chow, MD •Clinician-Scientist at the Rotman Research Institute
Staff Behavioral Neurologist • Baycrest’s Brain Health Centre Memory Clinic
Assistant Professor of Neurology and Geriatric Psychiatry, University of Toronto more...
January 16, 2007
Dr. Kenneth S. & Audrey S. Gould Lecture
Dr. Kenneth S. & Audrey S. Gould Lecture Series in Molecular and Cellular Medicine, Speaker Rudolf Janeisch, MD Founding Member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research.
Tuesday, January 16, 2007. More....
December 11, 2006
Football Superstar Tiki Barber Visits The Cancer Institute of New Jersey to Talk to Children and Their Parents more...
November 27, 2006
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Observes 25th Anniversary of AIDS
on World AIDS Day-- Free Rapid HIV Testing Available --
New Brunswick -- UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RJWMS) will commemorate the 25th anniversary of the first reported cases of HIV/AIDS as part of World AIDS Day on Friday, December 1. The theme will be “Stop AIDS. Keep the Promise.” more...
August 2006
Granzyme B is Critical for T Cell Receptor-Induced Cell Death of Type 2 Helper T Cells
Although CD95L is required for T cell receptor (TCR)induced cell death (TCR-ICD) in T helper 1 cells, the molecular mechanisms mediating TCR-ICD in Th2 cells are unknown. We found that death receptors were not involved in TCR-ICD of Th2 cells because blocking their cognate ligands had no effect on apoptosis of activated Th2 cells. Furthermore, we showed that caspases were not actively involved in TCR-ICD of Th2 cells. However, inhibition of granzyme B (GrB) activity abolished TCR-ICD in Th2 cells but not Th1 cells. Likewise, Th2 cells derived from GrB-deficient mice were resistant to TCR-ICD, and GrB deficiency or inhibition of GrB activity consequently enhanced the production of Th2 cytokines. GrB-deficient mice exhibited increased susceptibility to allergen-induced asthma. Thus, GrB plays a critical role in the TCR-ICD of Th2 cells. more...
April 2006
Genes and Development: Cory Abate-Shen, PhD, Professor, Neuroscience & Cell Biology.
"PIAS1 confers DNA-binding specificity on the Msx1 homeoprotein"
The mechanisms by which homeoproteins bind selectively to target genes in vivo have long remained
unresolved. Here we report that PIAS1 confers DNA-binding specificity on the Msx1 homeoprotein by
regulating its subnuclear localization and proximity to target genes. We demonstrate that the interaction of
Msx1 with PIAS1, but not its sumoylation, is required for Msx1 to function as an inhibitor of myoblast
differentiation through repression of myogenic regulatory genes, such as MyoD. We find that PIAS1 enables
Msx1 to bind selectively to a key regulatory element in MyoD, the CER, in myoblast cells and to distinguish
the CER from other nonregulatory TAAT-containing sequences. more...
March 2006
In Science: Emanuel DICicco-Bloom, MD, Professor, Neuroscience & Cell Biology
Perspectives: NEUROSCIENCE: Enhanced: Neuron, Know Thy Neighbor
Our most sophisticated thoughts and feelings depend critically on the cellular composition and functional organization of the cerebral cortex. Indeed, changes in the numbers of neurons, their positions within the tissue, and their interconnections via synapses may underlie a variety of human brain disorders, from autism and bipolar depression to mental retardation and epilepsy. more...
March 16, 2006
Class 2006 Match List
Ninety eight percent of the Class of 2006 who were enrolled ein the National Resident Matching Program matched. The national average was nine-four percent. The following programs and specialties were represented: more...
March 2006
Governor Jon S. Corzine holds Town Hall meeting at RWJMS
Governor Jon S. Corzine held a Town Hall meeting at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School’s Piscataway campus on Thursday, March 2. Governor Corzine introduced Bruce C. Vladeck, PhD, interim president of UMDNJ and expressed his support for the university to the standing-room only crowd. The main auditorium held over 350 faculty members, students and staff. The meeting was broadcast to four remote locations throughout the state and the governor took questions from each location for approximately two hours.
February-May 2006
Mini Medical School For High School Students
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January 2006
18th Annual Career Night
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