Research
World-class research conducted at the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy is advancing basic science and improving human health, through the discovery of new pharmaceuticals, innovative technologies, and best practices in healthcare.
Research by the Numbers
Dr. Wei-Xing Zong Shares How a Simple Dietary Change May Slow Liver Cancer in At-Risk Patients
People with compromised liver function may be able to reduce their risk of liver cancer or slow its progression with a simple dietary change: eating less protein.
A Rutgers-led study in Science Advances found low-protein diets slowed liver tumor growth and cancer death in mice, uncovering a mechanism by which a liver’s impaired waste-handling machinery can inadvertently fuel cancer.
Liver cancer remains one of the deadliest primary cancers in the United States, with a five-year survival rate of about 22%. The American Cancer Society estimates there were 42,240 new cases in 2025 and 30,090 deaths.
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Core Research Facilities
The research programs of our faculty have access to a wide range of modern scientific instrumentation and resources, both within the onsite laboratories of the School of Pharmacy and across the university in the core research facilities of our Rutgers affiliates. As researchers within Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, pharmacy faculty and students benefit from a strong interdisciplinary collaborative research network, with many opportunities to utilize the university’s specialized facilities, technologies, services, and expertise.
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RUCDR Infinite Biologics provides biobanking services and biomaterials as well as scientific and technical support for researchers working to understand, diagnose, treat, and cure disease.
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Rutgers is committed to the responsible and ethical care of animals and is accredited by the AAALAC. Our animal facilities include the Rutgers Animal Housing and Surgery Facilities, Center for Cancer Prevention Research animal facility, and Molecular Imaging Center.
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The Institute for Advanced Materials, Devices, and Nanotechnology houses research facilities and instrumentation that support science and technology driven by the atomic scale and nanoscale manipulation of materials.
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The Molecular Histology Center, located next door to our building in the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute (EOHSI), supports researchers in performing a variety of quantitative and qualitative tissue section-based assays.
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The Rutgers RWJMS Confocal Suite offers researchers two confocal microscopes with electronic imaging software, a spinning disc microscope and a Zeiss 510 microscope.
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The Biological Mass Spectrometry Facility, located in the Center for Integrative Proteomics Research, has state-of-the-art instrumentation for the analysis of biological samples.
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The Core Imaging Laboratory is located at Rutgers’ School of Public Health and provides electron microscopy services, techniques, and expertise.
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The DNA Core Facility of Rutgers’ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School provides quality DNA/RNA synthesis and related services.
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The Biometrics Shared Resource of the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey Center for Biometrics provides biostatistical support for researchers to ensure that studies are scientifically rigorous and lead to high-quality publications.
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