Featured Research Projects

Endocrine Program
Research Could Lead to Therapeutic Applications

Project Leader:
Dipak Sarkar

Genes Don't Tell the Whole Story
Grandparents' Environment Affects Epigenome, Which May Also Affect You

Project Leader:
Mehmet Uzumcu

Nature's Health-Promoting Products
Probiotics Could Help Combat Antibiotic Resistance

Project Leader:
Michael Chikindas

Understanding a Metabolism Disorder
A Rare Disease Could Lead to a New Understanding of Fat Metabolism

Project Leader:
Dawn Brasaemle

Young Minds Meet Young Horses
Project Trains Future Scientists and Improves Equine Health

Project Leader:
Sarah Ralston

What the Climate and Environmental Change Initiative Can Achieve

Project Leader:
Anthony Broccoli

A New Age of Ocean Research
Rutgers Underwater Gliders Key to Environmental Stewardship

Project Leaders:
Scott Glenn and Oscar Schofield

Landscape Change Research Program
Generating Data to Understand a Global Phenomenon

Project Leaders:
Richard Lathrop and David Tulloch

A New Paradigm of Drug Discovery
Better and More Affordable Medicines for Everyone

Project Leader:
Ilya Raskin

Restoring Our Urban Environments
Growing the Seeds for Land Revival

Project Leader:
Steven Handel

Saving Our Rare Bird Species
Management Plans for Bird Conservation

Project Leader:
Julie Lockwood

The Life Cycle and Habits of PCBs
Is Dredging the Solution or Part of the Problem?

Project Leader:
Lisa Rodenburg

Designing a Homegrown Energy Source
Is Switchgrass the Answer to Our Energy Needs?

Project Leader:
Stacy Bonos

There's Energy in Algae!
"Algaculture" Could Be the Energy Industry of the Future

Project Leader:
Paul Falkowski

Ocean Literacy for School Children
Improving Scientific Literacy in Elementary Schools

Project Leader:
Janice McDonnell