Forty East Brunswick middle-school students learned about preventing obesity from medical students in the Youth Self-Empowerment Program at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. The initiative explained the health risks of obesity and encouraged minority students' awareness of careers in the health sciences. The program also enabled the RWJMS students to sharpen their clinical skills and improve patient interactions.
UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School and Mount Sinai School of Medicine's Center for Multicultural and Community Affairs are partnering with other urban health centers to implement the Northeast Regional Health Career Opportunity Program. The partnership will introduce 200 students in grades 7 through 12 to healthcare professions. Participants will take academic enrichment courses and spend six weeks during the summer at one of the medical schools.
The program is funded by a $2.3 million grant from the Health Career Opportunity Program at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration. Read more.
Dr. Masayori Inouye, a distinguished professor of biochemistry at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, received a $1.2 million grant from a new NIH program: EUREKA (Exceptional, Unconventional Research Enabling Knowledge Acceleration). The grant will allow him to develop technology that determines the structure of membrane proteins.
The EUREKA program helps investigators test novel and unconventional hypotheses and tackle technical challenges. Read more.
The first of four national meetings on cancer and the environment planned by a federal advisory panel was held in East Brunswick on September 16. The session focused on manufacturing and occupational exposure. The panel reports annually to the President about the effectiveness of the National Cancer Program.
Among the 12 experts invited to testify were Dr. Adam Finkel, professor of environmental and occupational health at UMDNJ-School of Public Health, and Dr. Daniel Wartenberg, professor of environmental epidemiology and statistics at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and professor of epidemiology at UMDNJ-School of Public Health. Read more.
