Dr. Genova wins K18 award to advance research on transition-age youth with autism
Helen M. Genova, PhD, of Kessler Foundation, was awarded a two-year K18 grant for $266,988 from the NIH s National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) - the NIMH Career Enhancement Award to Advance Autism Services Research for Adults and Transition-Age Youth. This K18 award will provide Dr. Genova with support to develop her expertise in the field of transition-aged youth with autism spectrum disorders, including her research project, A strength-based intervention to improve job interview skills in transition age youth with autism spectrum disorder.
Dr. Genova, assistant director of the Center for Neuropsychology and Neuroscience Research at Kessler Foundation, is known for her research in disorders of social functioning in populations with brain injury and multiple sclerosis, with broad-based funding from federal, state, and private sources. Through Kessler Foundation s partnership with Children s Sp
Dr. Genova receives NIH K18 award to advance her autism research in transition-age youth
East Hanover, NJ. December 28, 2020. Helen M. Genova, PhD, of Kessler Foundation, was awarded a two-year K18 grant for $266,988 from the NIH s National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) - the NIMH Career Enhancement Award to Advance Autism Services Research for Adults and Transition-Age Youth. This K18 award will provide Dr. Genova with support to develop her expertise in the field of transition-aged youth with autism spectrum disorders, including her research project, A strength-based intervention to improve job interview skills in transition age youth with autism spectrum disorder.
By CHUCK O DONNELL
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital personnel unpacking the COVID-19 vaccine.
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By CHUCK O DONNELL
December 15, 2020 at 1:26 PM
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ - The first staff members at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick will receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at an event scheduled for this afternoon.
The hospital commemorated the historic day by taking video of personnel carefully unpacking the vaccine and putting it into storage earlier today.
At 8:10 a.m., Maritza Beniquez, a resident nurse at the University Hospital emergency department in Newark, became the first New Jerseyan to receive the coronavirus vaccine outside the clinical trials.