Dr. Mark Rossi Receives 2025 Rutgers Health Chancellor Award for Excellence in Basic Sciences Research

We are thrilled to share that Dr. Mark A. Rossi, Core Faculty member of the Rutgers Brain Health Institute (BHI), has been awarded the 2025 Rutgers Health Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Basic Sciences Research (Early Career Investigator) for his significant contributions to impactful basic science or translational research at Rutgers Health.

Dr. Rossi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Child Health Institute of New Jersey. The Rossi Lab aims to understand how distributed neural circuits regulate feeding and motivated behavior and how these processes are disrupted by external factors, such as diet. He also studies how early life nutrition influences the behavior and neurocircuit function later in life. The lab uses calcium imaging, electrophysiology, and viral based genetic tools to perturb and observe neural activity during motivated behavior.

Introduced in 2020, the Chancellor Awards were established to recognize and highlight the extraordinary work of faculty and staff. Nominated by their peers, recipients of the awards are selected by the Chancellor Awards Committee, which reviews the contributions of the nominees.

Join us in congratulating Dr. Rossi on this well-deserved honor.