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Clinical trials and research at Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences
As of November 12, 2026, Find a Trial lists 790 NIH-funded research projects at this institution, with $432.3 million in listed awards. Every study is explained in plain English. Data from ClinicalTrials.gov and NIH RePORTER, updated November 12, 2026.
- 790NIH research projects
NIH-funded research (newest 40 of 790)
Early-stage science funded by the US National Institutes of Health. Most of these projects don't enroll patients, but they show what is being worked on.
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Methylation and metabolism signals linked to lung function in kids with asthma
This grant looks at how genes, environment, and small chemical changes in the body together affect how lung function changes over time in children with asthma.
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FEND-TB: Faster, better TB tests for all ages
A multi-institutional project aims to develop and validate faster TB diagnostic tools and drug-susceptibility tests so people of all ages, including children and those with extrapulmonary TB, can get quicker and more accurate results.
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FEND-TB: Accelerating TB Diagnostics and Drug Susceptibility Testing
A multi‑institution collaboration will test new TB diagnostic tools and rapid drug-susceptibility tests to improve detection and treatment for people of all ages, including children and those with hard-to-diagnose TB.
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Game-based mobile app to help pregnant women with overweight/obesity manage weight in Nepal
A new app designed for pregnant women in Nepal with overweight or obesity to help manage weight gain during pregnancy and reduce weight retention after birth.
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Environmental factors and Lewy body dementia: linking claims data with lab work
Aims to find environmental factors that influence Lewy body dementia by combining big health data with lab studies, to understand what might worsen the condition and who is most at risk.
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Identifying how ableism affects pregnancy and postpartum care for women with intellectual and developmental disabilities on Medicaid
This grant studies how bias and barriers in the healthcare system affect pregnancy and postpartum outcomes for women with intellectual and developmental disabilities who are on Medicaid and their babies.
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Nationwide study on how air-borne radioactivity from particulate matter affects heart disease
A nationwide study will look at how tiny radioactive particles in the air may influence heart disease and hospitalizations.
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Nociceptor nerves, gut inflammation, and tissue protection in IBD
A study to understand how pain-sensing nerves in the gut help protect tissue and how they may go awry in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
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Air pollution and tuberculosis spread in Kampala, Uganda
This project looks at whether dirty air from PM2.5 particles makes tuberculosis more likely to spread within urban slum households in Kampala, Uganda.
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Air pollution and TB spread in Ugandan urban slums
This project explores whether exposure to air pollution makes tuberculosis more likely to spread within households in a crowded Ugandan slum.
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Air pollution and TB transmission in Kampala’s urban slums
This project looks at whether air pollution from PM2.5 makes tuberculosis spread more easily from infected people to their neighbors in urban slums of Kampala, Uganda.
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How air pollution, weather, and green spaces affect Parkinson’s symptoms in older adults
This project looks at whether everyday environmental factors like air quality, temperature, and access to parks worsen or improve Parkinson’s symptoms in people aged 65 and up.
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Psychosocial and cultural factors linked to heart and metabolic health in older Chinese Americans
This project studies how daily stress and social factors affect heart and metabolic health in older Chinese Americans, using real-time reporting and biosamples.
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Mobile home monitoring to manage high blood pressure and diabetes in pregnancy
A home telemonitoring program helps pregnant people with hypertension or gestational diabetes share blood pressure and glucose data with their doctors to guide care.
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Mobile-based obstetric monitoring for high blood pressure and diabetes in pregnancy
A mobile-based program helps pregnant people with high blood pressure or diabetes monitor their blood pressure and blood sugar at home and share results with their clinicians.
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Understanding and improving how adults who smoke view e-cigarettes as a switch option
This grant tests messaging that helps adult smokers understand the relative risks of e-cigarettes and cigarettes to see if clearer information can encourage switching to noncombustible nicotine.
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Cancer cachexia: understanding and defeating muscle and fat loss in cancer patients
A researchers’ team is studying cancer cachexia, a severe weight and muscle loss that affects many cancer patients, with the goal of finding why it happens and how to treat it.
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Understanding how care teams connect to better care for older adults with ADRD and multiple health problems
This grant tests how the way clinicians work together (their network) affects care quality and outcomes for older adults with Alzheimer's or related dementias and multiple health issues.
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Scaling up medications for opioid use disorder in residential treatment programs
This grant studies how to help residential treatment programs provide medications for opioid use disorder to reduce overdoses after discharge, focusing on real-world settings and policies.
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Understanding how bacteria take up DNA to spread traits like antibiotic resistance
A study using Bacillus subtilis to uncover how environmental DNA is taken up by bacteria, shedding light on how resistance and virulence traits can spread.
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Targeted protein degradation through arginylation in cancer biology
A new approach uses the enzyme ATE1 to identify and modify cancer-related proteins, aiming to develop ways to selectively degrade those proteins to slow cancer progression.
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MD/PhD Track 1 FM1 Application for Shah
This grant supports a physician-scientist training pathway at Rutgers to prepare leaders who can combine medicine and science for future patient care.
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Mobile tools to understand how sleep affects quitting smoking
This project uses a smartphone to track sleep and smoking in lower-income adults trying to quit to find how sleep patterns relate to staying smoke-free.
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Optimizing lung cancer care with smart tools for prevention, early detection, treatment, and survivorship
A U01 grant using AI and biomarkers to improve lung cancer prevention, screening, treatment, and survivorship care for people at risk or living with lung cancer.
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Integrated Transporter Elucidation Center improves placental drug and nutrient delivery
A national collaboration will map how placental transporter proteins move drugs and nutrients to the fetus, with the aim of improving perinatal therapies.
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Prioritizing food system changes to reduce adolescent hunger and malnutrition in low-income areas
A project will work with teens in low-income urban areas of Nairobi, Kenya, to understand how local food systems affect their nutrition and find practical ways to improve access to healthy foods.
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Prioritizing food systems for healthier adolescent nutrition in low-income settings
This grant aims to help adolescents in low-income communities eat better by studying how access to food and local systems affect their nutrition.
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Prioritizing food systems to improve teens’ nutrition in low-income settings
A project to help hungry and malnourished adolescents in low-income urban areas by studying how food systems affect what teens eat and how to make healthier choices.
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Cortical interneuron transplantation to help people with epilepsy
A researcher plans to test transplanting special human brain cells to reduce seizures in people with epilepsy that doesn’t respond to medicines.
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Phosphatidylserine-targeting antibodies and T cell function in HIV-1 infection
This NIH grant will explore how antibodies that target phosphatidylserine affect immune cells in people living with HIV on ART.
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Structure-based inhibitors to block HIV and LINE-1 reverse transcriptases
Aims to develop new, more precise inhibitors that block HIV-1 and LINE-1 reverse transcriptases without the side effects of current drugs.
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How county incarceration affects access to addiction treatment and outcomes
Researchers are looking at whether higher county jail and prison rates are linked to less available and used addiction treatment and worse outcomes for people with substance use problems.
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Early lung imaging signs of tuberculosis
This project builds computer-based CT and chest X-ray tools to spot early lung changes that may signal tuberculosis in people who don't yet have symptoms.
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Optimizing Treatments for People with Cystic Fibrosis on Highly Effective Modulator Therapy
A real-world study in people with cystic fibrosis on highly effective CFTR modulator therapy to understand how traditional CF treatments can be adjusted safely.
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Post-overdose prevention and care gaps for high-risk youth
This grant aims to find better ways to prevent repeat overdoses and improve discharge planning for adolescents and young adults who have had a nonfatal overdose.
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Software to plan targeted radioactive drug treatment for tiny cancer deposits
A computer modeling tool to help doctors plan radioactive drug treatments that better reach tiny tumors and scattered cancer cells.
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Understanding how gut microbes influence cancer and immune responses
A scientist at Rutgers is studying how the microbes in our gut affect cancer growth and the body’s response to cancer immunotherapy.
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Immune cells in the brain's choroid plexus and aging
This project tests whether boosting a specific type of immune cell in the brain's choroid plexus can reduce inflammation and help people with Alzheimer's-related memory problems, using mouse experiments and human tissue samples.
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Brain health and digital memory tests for older Mandarin speakers
This project creates Mandarin-based brain and digital tests to help detect early memory problems in older Mandarin-speaking adults.
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Youth and social media marketing of hemp-derived cannabis products
Young people are increasingly exposed to hemp-derived cannabis product marketing on social media, and this study looks at how that marketing might influence their attitudes and curiosity.
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