On October 30, Rutgers, along with Tulane University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Rochester, announced a collaborative research center called the Integrated Transporter Elucidation Center (InTEC), according to a press release.
InTEC will be funded by a $5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and will be located in Piscataway. The center is going to be led by Lauren Aleksunes, a professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, according to the press release.
Aleksunes said the research center was created after the NIH requested for scientists specializing in the placenta — a prenatal organ that attaches the fetus to the mother and provides it nutrition and hormones — to conduct research in “human relevant experimental methods.” Read more at: https://dailytargum.com/article/2023/11/u-researchers-receive-usd5-million-grant-to-study-placentas-relationship-to