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IGERT International Sites Academic Internships

A unique and enriching aspect of the IGERT program is the opportunity for students to intern at international academic facilities. Currently, sites have been identified which have:

  • Multiple potential advisors for the trainees
  • Good accommodation proximal to the research sites
  • State-of-the-art instrumentation or facilities
  • Staff to train the IGERT trainees
  • Host advisors comitteed to serving on the trainee's thesis committee
  • Links to other reserach groups in the host country

International Academic Partners
1) Institute Bioengineering & Nanotechnology, Singapore
2) University of Knottingham, UK
3) University of Hong Kong
4) Stem Cell Institute, Munich, Germany
5) Institut Curie, Orsay, France
6) Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
7) Chinese Academy of Sciences
8) National Center for Biological Sciences, India
9) Cellartis/Goeteberg University, Sweden
10) Ecole Polytech, Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland

Major Events
  • 2011 IGERT Symposium
    The Stem Cell IGERT will be hosting an individual symposium this year. It will be held in the Busch Campus center on Friday, November 11, 2011 from 9:00am-2:00pm. Please mark your calendars! Agenda and additional information will follow shortly!

  • 5th Annual NJ Stem Cell Symposium and IGERT Symposium
    SAVE THE DATE!!!! The 5th Annual NJ Stem Cell Symposium and IGERT Annual Symposium will be held September 21, 2011 at the Bridgewater Marriott from 9:00am-6:00pm. Registration information will be available shortly! This year, in addition to Life Technologies, the newly funded NIMH Stem Cell Center will also be a co-sponsor!

  • Stem Cell Symposium
    The Stem Cell Institute and Cander Institute of NJ are hosting a Spring 2011 Stem Cell Symposium on March 23, 2011 in the Atrium of the Life Sciences Building. The event will run from 12:30-5:00pm. The keynote speaker will be Max Wicha PhD, of the University of Michigan.

  • Applications Being Accepted!!!
    The Stem Cell IGERT program is currently accepting applications for the 2011-2012 program year. please visit the application link or contact Julia Haque at haque@rci.rutgers.edu if you are interested in applying. The application dedline is March 31, 2011, however, rolling admissions have already begun!

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    More News

  • BME Graduate Student Awarded NJCSCR Fellowship
    BME graduate student and IGERT fellow, Jeffrey Barminko, has been awarded a predoctoral fellowship from the New Jersey Commission on Spinal Cord Research for his project entitled “Encapsulated MSCs for Spinal Cord Injury Repair”. The 2 year, $60,000 fellowship will support Jeff, while he investigates approaches to augment MSC cyto-protective properties via novel methods for delivering MSC in vivo. Jeff is performing his studies under the guidance of Professors Martin Yarmush, Rene Schloss, and Martin Grumet. The Fellowship is slated to begin in June, 2010 at the conclusion of Jeff's support as an IGERT Fellow.

  • Congratulations to Professor Ki-Bum Lee, Stem Cell IGERT Faculty in Chemistry and Chemical Biology, who is the recipient of the NIH Director’s New Innovator award, 2009.
    The NIH Director's New Innovator Award program is designed specifically to support unusually creative early stage investigators with highly innovative research ideas at an early stage of their career.

  • IGERT fellow wins award:
    Congratulations to IGERT fellow Nicole Plourde who was recipient of the 2009 Schering-Plough Innovation Award. She was presented with an awards plaque and a check for $5000 at a ceremony on Thursday, April 16th.

  • Chris Ricupero featured on Epigenie interview
    Follow link here for full interview.

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