- RCLR holds 9th annual symposium "Lipids in Membrane Organization and Translational Medicine" on November 8, 2024. Read the news release
- Judith Storch to receive the 2025 ASBMB Avanti Award in Lipids.
- How an enzyme protects the colon; highlight of the Sampath lab research in ASBMB Today.
- RCLR holds its 8th annual symposium "The Fat-soluble Vitamins Fight Back " on November 10, 2023. Read the news release
- RCLR holds its 7th annual symposium "Into the Lipidverse" on November 11, 2022. Download the program and read the news release
- Harini Sampath presents talk at the 4th Big Ten Academic Alliance Lipid Symposium at the University of Illinois-February 11, 2022
- Karla Frietze and the Nickels Lab published their work on how the RIG1 pattern recognition receptor protects cells from lipotoxic cell death and apoptosis
- Joanna Kwiatek receives best poster award at the Science: Polish Perspectives Conference, Switzerland and check out her interview with ASBMB
- George Carman is elected an inaugural ASBMB fellow
- Enver Izgu receives the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering Trailblazer Award
- Judy Storch is elected Fellow of the American Society for Nutrition
- RCLR held its 5th annual symposium "Lipids in Health and Disease" on November 8th. Download the Program Booklet (PDF) and read the news release
- The 3rd Big Ten Academic Alliance Lipid Conference was held at the University of Minnesota on September 27, 2019. Loredana Quadro was a keynote speaker and gave a great talk. Download the program (PDF) and a photo of the ten RCLR members who attended (PDF).
- The RCLR held the symposium "Lipid Diversity and Human Diease" on Novermber 9, 2018. Download the booklet (PDF), see photos on the RCLR Facebook page, and read the news release
- Read the ASBMB Today article about RCLR from 2008 (PDF)
- Sai Komakula and the Sampath Lab publish their work on oxidative DNA damage and regulation of energy balance in Scientific Reports: https://rdcu.be/8yJh
- Youn-Kyung Kim, Laura Armstrong, Justin Schumacher, Sai Komakula, Maryam Honarbaksh, and Trey Lackey present posters at the BTAA-Lipids Conference at Purdue University on February 16, 2018. Loredana Quadro, Judy Storch, and George Carman (speaker) also attended the conference. Support for student/postdoc attendance to the conference was provided by the NeuroLipid Research Foundation.
- George Carman is reappointed Associate Editor of the Journal of Lipid Research
- Rutgers Researchers Explore the Wonderful World of Lipids (PDF)
- Rutgers News Release-A Fat-Regulating Enzyme Could Hold the Key to Obesity, Diabetes, Cancer, Other Diseases
- The Lipid Biology & Disease Poster Awardees are Youn-Kyung Kim, Laura Armstrong, Justin Schumacher, Sai Komakula, and Maryam Honarbaksh.
- RCLR hosts symposium on lipid biology and disease on November 3, 2017
- Dr. Olga Ilnytska receives Ara Parseghian Medical Research Foundation grant to study the therapeutic potential of lysobisphospatidic acid (LBPA) enrichment in the treatment of Niemann Pick type C1 disease.
- Dr. Loredana Quadro is recognized as a 2017 Fellow of the International Carotenoid Society. The International Carotenoid Society recognizes members whose consistent contributions to the Society, the scientific community, and the general public demonstrate a commitment to excellence, leadership, and sound ethics.
- RCLR members Lauren Aleksunes, Tracy Anthony, George Carman, Stelios Fakas, Grace Guo, Gil-Soo Han, Victor Jin, Labros, Sidossis, and Judy Storch presented paprs at the Experimental Biology meeting in Chicago.
- Dr. George Carman, Director of RCLR took part in the March for Science on April 22, 2017 while attending the Experimental Biology meeting in Chicago. He was interviewed by the local CBS affiliate. Check it out here.
- On November 10, 2016, the Rutgers Center for Lipid Research hosted the Inaugural Symposium of the Big Ten Academic Alliance Lipids entitled Lipids and Metabolic Diseases II.
News Release, Program booklet, and event photos. - Dr. Filippo Mancia from the Columbia University Medical Center led a team of scientists, which includes Drs. Youn-Kyung Kim and Loredana Quadro from the RCLR, to elucidate the structure of the membrane receptor STRA6 that transports vitamin A into the cell. For more information, follow the links to the press release and the article published in Science.
