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Dr. Joachim Kohn, Director of New Jersey Center for Biomaterials and Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, received the Innovation Hero award for his pioneering research achievements at this year’s Healthcare Heroes event which recognizes individuals and organizations that are making a significant impact on the quality of healthcare in New Jersey.

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Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and RWJBarnabas Health have been recognized with a Blue Distinction® Centers for Cancer Care designation as part of the Blue Distinction Specialty Care program.

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Star-shaped gold nanoparticles, coated with a semiconductor, can produce hydrogen from water over four times more efficiently than other methods – opening the door to improved storage of solar energy and other advances that could boost renewable energy use and combat climate change, according to Rutgers University–New Brunswick researchers.

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Sea-level rise will endanger valuable salt marshes across the United Kingdom by 2100 if greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated, according to an international study co-authored by a Rutgers University–New Brunswick professor.

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Aiming to reduce cancer risk, improve the understanding of cancer outcomes, and promote cancer health equity in the most vulnerable populations at the community level, the Rutgers School of Public Health and Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey have recruited Anita Y. Kinney, PhD, to two new leadership roles.

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Steven Cowley, a theoretical physicist and international authority on fusion energy, became the seventh Director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPon July 1 and will be Princeton professor of astrophysical sciences on September 1.

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“Our research sheds new light on the function of plasma, the state of matter that comprises 99 percent of the visible universe,” writes Steve Cowley, new director of PPPL. Quest summarizes much of the research that occurred at PPPL over the last year.

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Article describes XICS measurement of W7-X temperature that contributed to stellarator world record.

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ISPOR, the professional society for health economics and outcomes research, announced that it has been recognized by the American Society of Association Executives with a 2018 “Power of A” Silver Award for its Good Practices for Outcomes Research Reports.

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The Coriell Institute for Medical Research's quality managment system has been certified to the updated ISO 9001:2015 standards.

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Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey researchers have elucidated the mechanism behind an ‘on/off’ switch in the the most commonly mutated gene in human cancer – p53 – findings which they say could lead to a new paradigm in cancer therapeutics.

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Hackensack Meridian Health Bayshore Medical Center in Holmdel is now home to the da Vinci® Si™ Surgical system, bringing advanced technology in surgery to the medical center’s operating room and to the community. Robotic surgery enables surgeons to perform minimally invasive surgeries on a variety of diseases and conditions including urology, gynecology and general surgery.

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Atlantic Health System is now enrolling patients in four pancreatic cancer clinical trials. Angela Alistar, MD, a nationally known expert on pancreatic cancer, is serving as national Principal Investigator (PI) on the first trial and as local PI on three other trials.

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ISPOR (the professional society for health economics and outcomes research) announced that the impact factor for Value in Health, the Society’s flagship journal, has increased to 5.494.

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The Blavatnik Family Foundation and the New York Academy of Sciences today announced the 2018 Laureates of the Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists, who will each receive $250,000: the largest unrestricted scientific prize offered to America’s most promising faculty-level scientific researchers 42 years of age and younger.

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Hackensack Meridian Health Ocean Medical Center officially welcomed the first class of family medicine and psychiatry residents, at the inaugural 2018 Resident White Coat Ceremony. More than 125 community members were in attendance, including Hackensack Meridian Health leadership and academic enterprise, Board of Trustees, faculty, physicians, residents and their families. The new residency programs will train the physicians of tomorrow and address New Jersey’s projected shortages of primary care and psychiatry physicians.

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ISPOR, the professional society for health economics and outcomes research, announced a new ISPOR Summit “New Approaches to Value Assessment: Towards More Informed Pricing in Healthcare” scheduled for October 19, 2018 in Washington, DC, USA.

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ISPOR, the professional society for health economics and outcomes research, announced the theme and plenary sessions for its ISPOR Asia Pacific 2018 conference that is scheduled for 8-11 September 2018 in Tokyo, Japan.

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Article describes PPPL winner of DOE Early Career Awards.

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Hackensack Meridian Health Bayshore Medical Center in Holmdel, NJ, is pleased to welcome David M. Junkin, M.D., to the medical staff. Dr. Junkin is a board certified orthopedic surgeon, providing care for patients in need of treatment for sports medicine injuries or fracture, and has a special interest in knee and shoulder reconstruction.

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When Jimmy Carter was diagnosed with end-stage metastatic melanoma in 2015, he began taking a drug developed in part using 3D molecular data. Insights like these into drug discovery and other fields of scientific research are possible using the 140,000-plus 3D molecular structures made freely available in the RCSB Protein Data Bank at Rutgers University–New Brunswick.

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Rutgers Professor Stephen Crystal, who co-authored a pioneering study showing that U.S. survivors of opioid overdoses are highly likely to die within a year from drug use–related causes, suicide and wide-ranging diseases, is available for interviews. The study was published online in JAMA Psychiatry today.

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Cardiac late effects will be the focus of an upcoming ‘Survivors Family Education Night’ hosted by Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey. Supported by a grant from the National Children’s Cancer Society, the event targets pediatric cancer survivors.

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Value in Health, the official journal of ISPOR (the professional society for health economics and outcomes research), announced today the publication of new guidance regarding the selection and evaluation of wearable devices for use in regulatory trials and to support labeling claims.

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The Hackensack Meridian Health Riverview Medical Center Foundation Board of Trustees is pleased to announce the Sixth Annual Family Fireworks on the Navesink to support Riverview Medical Center Foundation. This fun-filled family event will again be held at the DiPiero home on the picturesque Navesink River, on Tuesday, July 3 at 6:30 p.m.

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Value in Health, the official journal of ISPOR (the professional society for health economics and outcomes research), announced today the publication of a study introducing a novel strategy for obtaining reasonable drug cost estimates for US-based cost-effectiveness analyses.

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Researchers at Rutgers Cancer Institute are exploring the combination of a new anti-cancer vaccine with an immunotherapy drug approved for use in other forms of cancer to determine if the combined treatment can prompt a patient’s natural defenses (the immune system) to attack their cancer and improve their survival.

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Several physicians from Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey have been named as a ‘Top Doctor’ or ‘Top Doctor for Cancer Care’ by Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., which publishes resource guides on top healthcare professionals across the nation.

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Hackensack Meridian Health Riverview Medical Center in Red Bank, has again been nominated as one of the most beautiful hospitals in the U.S. in an annual competition run by Soliant Health, a leading specialty health care staffing provider and part of Adecco Group. Last year, the medical center placed second in the competition and is looking to claim the top spot, which is determined by number of votes.

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The American Neurological Association (ANA), the professional organization representing the nation’s top academic neurologists and neuroscientists, will host its 143rd Annual Meeting October 21-23, 2018 at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta. More than 800 of the nation’s top academic neurologists as well as students, trainees, and international professionals will convene for three days of research at the vanguard of neurology and neuroscience.

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Instead of another tie or tools, give the gift of good health this Father’s Day. As Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey experts note, it’s as simple as encouraging regular health screenings to protect against cancer.

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Climate change is forcing fish species to shift their habitats faster than the world’s system for allocating fish stocks, exacerbating international fisheries conflicts, according to a study led by a Rutgers University–New Brunswick researcher. The study, published online in the journal Science today, showed for the first time that new fisheries are likely to appear in more than 70 countries all over the world as a result of climate change. History has shown that newly shared fisheries often spark conflict among nations.

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Rutgers New Jersey Poison Control Experts Available to Discuss Allergy Medication and Drugged Driving

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Rutgers researchers have created an automated blood drawing and testing device that provides rapid results, potentially improving the workflow in hospitals and other health-related institutions to allow health care practitioners to spend more time treating patients. A study describing the fully automated device is published online in the journal TECHNOLOGY.

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Steven Cowley, newly named director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) effective July 1, has received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth “for services to science and the development of nuclear fusion.”

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Hackensack Meridian Health Riverview Medical Center located in Red Bank, now offers full and partial robotic knee replacement surgery thanks to the addition of the Mako System, a robotic-arm that allows surgeons to personalize the surgical experience, tailoring it to patients’ needs and anatomy.

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In 1965, a renowned Princeton University physicist theorized that ferroelectric metals could conduct electricity despite not existing in nature. For decades, scientists thought it would be impossible to prove the theory by Philip W. Anderson, who shared the 1977 Nobel Prize in physics. It was like trying to blend fire and water, but a Rutgers-led international team of scientists has verified the theory and their findings are published online in Nature Communications.

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Shauna Downs, an international food systems researcher, explains what the FDA’s impending trans fat ban means for America’s health

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Article describes results of new simulation of magnetic islands.

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Targeted therapy with anti-VEGF and anti-EGFR antibodies both improve outcomes when added to chemotherapy in the treatment of colorectal cancer. However, some previous studies suggested the combination of the two antibodies may have a negative interaction. Those studies were done without selecting patients for KRAS mutations. Investigators from the ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group led by Howard S. Hochster, MD, FACP, associate director for clinical research and director of gastrointestinal oncology at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, explored the anti-VEGFR antibody ramucirumab in second-line treatment.

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ISPOR, the professional society for health economics and outcomes research, announced the election of the Society’s 2018-2019 Board of Directors.

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What are the origins of life on Earth and possibly elsewhere? Did “protein nanomachines” evolve here before life began to catalyze and support the development of living things? Could the same thing have happened on Mars, the moons of Jupiter and Neptune, and elsewhere in the universe? A Rutgers University-led team of scientists called ENIGMA, for “Evolution of Nanomachines in Geospheres and Microbial Ancestors,” will try to answer those questions over the next five years, thanks to an approximately $6 million NASA grant and membership in the NASA Astrobiology Institute.

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Article about 23rd international biennial conference on plasma surface interactions in controlled fusion devices to be held June 17-22 at Princeton University.

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A Rutgers-led team of physicists has demonstrated a way to conduct electricity between transistors without energy loss, opening the door to low-power electronics and, potentially, quantum computing that would be far faster than today’s computers. Their findings, which involved using a special mix of materials with magnetic and insulator properties, are published online in Nature Physics.

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ISPOR, the professional society for health economics and outcomes research, recently concluded its ISPOR 2018 conference in Baltimore, MD, USA. The conference drew 3741 healthcare stakeholders representing 70 countries from all sectors of healthcare.

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Rutgers Global Health Institute’s director discusses how rejecting scientific facts can undermine progress in public health – and how the medical profession can further public understanding of science