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Integrative Course Philosophy
IGERT GTFs will choose three integrative courses (denoted by IC) on biointerfaces, from four available IC offerings.
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These courses are new and are currently under various stages of development. The course titles and team-teachers are tabulated below, and their syllabi summaries are tabulated further below. It should be noted that these courses are novel in their outlook because they review important applications or case studies in the field of biointerfaces, and they utilize an integrative philosophy to treat each course theme, which differs greatly from the conventional curriculum in this field. For example, a traditional approach to teach synthesis of biomaterials is to review separately the synthesis of polymeric, ceramic, and metallic materials. While this approach is useful for a summative review of all biomaterials, these reviews are largely without context, and the treatment of design of biomaterial-based biointerfaces must await a separate course on the biological components that is then reviewed in the absence of the materials context. Instead, the IC courses designed here
integrate biointerfaces across (a) the range of organization of biological components of the interfaces (e.g. genes, proteins, cells: see IC1), or (b) size scales (e.g nano-micro-macroscales), or (c) the two phases that constitute a typical biointerface.
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| Major Events |
New IGERT funded - applications due
The Stem Cell IGERT has been funded. Please turn in your applications for the 2008/9 school year by the end of the day, Tuesday, August 19.
Next IRIF - Tuesday, July 29: Christina Sever, IGERT trainee, and Dr. Joachim Kohn
Conducting basic research while managing translational potential and intellectual property: how to have the best of both worlds. 11:45 am - 1 pm, BME 122
Next IRIF: Wed. April 30th: Research Talk, Jocie Cherry, IGERT Trainee
11:45 am - 1 pm, Room CCR-201 (Note: change of location!)
Congratulations to IGERT Trainee Kevin Nikitczuk,
awarded 2-year pre-doctoral fellowship from New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research for his research "Immune Targeting using an Engineered Vaccine Delivery System", advised by Professors Martin Yarmush and Edmund Lattime.
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IGERT Inaugural Celebration and Research Seminars
Rutgers IGERT on Biointerfaces holds Inaugural Celebration and Research Seminars on January 30, 2004
New IGERT Graduate Fellows
The Fall 2004 class of IGERT Graduate fellows has been announced. To view information about the new fellows, please click here.
NIH Postdoctoral Program
Rutgers has been awarded the first NIH postdoctoral program in Tissue Engineering. Rutgers to house the first NIH-resource center for polymeric biomaterials.
ISURF Launched
New Undergraduate Research Frontiers Program, ISURF launched June 2004
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