Rutgers Holds 15th Annual Pioneers in Endocrinology Workshop
"Early-Life Stress and the Endocrine System" was the theme of the 15th Annual Pioneers in Endocrinology Workshop held at Rutgers on October 3 at the Busch Student Center.
The workshop was sponsored by the Rutgers Endocrine Program; the Department of Animal Sciences at the Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers - RWJMS Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nutrition; the NExT Center at the New Jersey Institute of Food Health and Nutrition, Research Diets, Inc., and ThermoFisher Scientific. Full article
Dipak Sarkar Elected as a 2023 Fellow in the International Union of Physiological Sciences Academy
Dipak Sarkar, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Animal Sciences, was recently elected as a 2023 Fellow in the International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS) Academy.
The IUPS Academy represents the diversity and excellence of worldwide physiology. It celebrates and publicizes the important contributions made by physiologists globally to science and health. As an international non-political organization, IUPS is a body that represents the entire community of physiological researchers, teachers, and students. Full article
Rutgers Holds 14th Annual Pioneers in Endocrinology Workshop on Transgender Endocrinology
"Transgender Endocrinology" was the theme of the 14th Annual Pioneers in Endocrinology Workshop held at Rutgers on October 11, 2022, at the Busch Student Center. The workshop was sponsored by the Rutgers Endocrine Program; Rutgers-RWJMS Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nutrition; the Department of Animal Sciences at the Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences; and the NExT Center, NJ Institute of Food Health and Nutrition. Full article
Professor Dipak Sarkar discusses alcohol's effects on immunity
Dipak Sarkar, an expert on alcohol metabolism and immunity, and professor at Rutgers University, tells Inverse that he advises skipping alcohol altogether during the Covid-19 pandemic. Read full article.
Endocrine Program faculty members receiveE T32 postdoctoral training grant
A group of endocrine program faculty under the leadership of Dr. Dipak K. Sarkar applied and received a T32 grant award notice from NIH/NIAAA. This grant started on August 1, 2019, and it is currently funding four postdoctoral fellows each year and a total of 10 postdoctoral fellows for a period of 5 years to train in the area of the molecular neuroscience of alcoholism and drug abuse research at Rutgers. The Molecular Neuroscience of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Training (MNADRT) program will employ multidisciplinary approaches, including molecular and cellular techniques, electrophysiology, optogenetics, designer receptors exclusively activated by designer drugs (DREADD), stem cell technology, neuroimaging, neuroimmunology, neurobehavioral pharmacology, and genetics to increase the understanding of the genetic and environmental influences on the nervous system controlling stress dysregulation and pathogenesis in alcoholism and drug abuse. This training grant is a unique collaborative program because it has faculty members from various schools and departments of Rutgers. Visit the MNADRT website for more information.