Recent Grants

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Health Grants Made in 2016

Alzheimer’s Association/National Office Chicago, IL

$175,000Payment Date: 4/4/2016

For: New Investigator Research Grants, specifically the Molecular Pathogenesis and Physiology of Alzheimer’s (Discovery Science or Basic Disease Understanding) category

American Cancer Society, Inc./Northeast Region New York, NY

$285,000Payment Date: 12/8/2016

For: Programs in the Northwest New Jersey Region-$60,000; National Home Office-Extramural Research support in immunotherapy-$225,000

American Diabetes Association Research Foundation, Inc. Arlington, VA

$80,000Payment Date: 12/8/2016

Toward a one-year, Junior Faculty Development Award for Dr. Diana E. Stanescu’s research to improve the function of stem cell-derived beta cells

Be The Match Foundation Minneapolis, MN

$40,000Payment Date: 4/29/2016

Toward the Scholars Program for the Study of Post-Transplant Complications

Cancer Research Institute, Inc. New York, NY

$75,000Payment Date: 3/31/2016

For: The Irvington Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

Children’s Hospital Corporation Boston, MA

$200,000Payment Date: 4/4/2016

Toward the F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center-for the Innovation and Education Fund-$100,000; for the Gene Manipulation Innovation Grants-$100,000

Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation Short Hills, NJ

$150,000Payment Date: 12/8/2016

For: Continued support of the work of Drs. Sam Pfaff and Chet Moritz to identify, locate, and characterize the role of interneurons in the human spinal cord

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor, NY

$100,000Payment Date: 4/4/2016

Toward the continued start-up and operation of the Preclinical Experimental Therapeutics (PET) facility

Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation, Inc. New York, NY

$85,000Payment Date: 12/8/2016

Toward two CCFA Research Fellowship Awards

Foundation for Morristown Medical Center, Inc. Morristown, NJ

$200,000Payment Date: 9/9/2016

For: The expansion and facilities upgrade of the Inpatient Psychiatric Unit-$200,000 in 2014, 2015, and 2016; toward a fund or project that honors Denny Baird-$50,000 in 2014

JDRF International New York, NY

$175,000Payment Date: 9/12/2016

Toward Beta Cell Restoration and Beta Cell Replacement research

Kennedy Krieger Institute Baltimore, MD

$150,000Payment Date: 12/8/2016

Toward the establishment of the Informatics Center

Little Falls Hospital Cooperstown,

$25,000Payment Date: 12/21/2016

Toward the upgrade and replacement of outdated emergency department monitoring equipment

Overlook Foundation Summit, NJ

$40,000Payment Date: 11/30/2016

For: Support of the Neuroscience Institute at Overlook Medical Center

Population Council, Inc. New York, NY

$50,000Payment Date: 3/31/2016

Toward direct costs only in Postdoctoral Training: Reproductive Biomedicine and Biomedical HIV Research

Rutgers University Foundation/Rutgers New Jersey Medical School New Brunswick, NJ

$50,000Payment Date: 3/31/2016

For: Continued research for Synaptic Interactions: Formation and Plasticity (Stipend support for students and post-docs)

Scheie Eye Institute Philadelphia, PA

$100,000Payment Date: 4/4/2016

For: Capital equipment for the F.M. Kirby Center for Molecular Ophthalmology-$100,000 in 2016 and 2017

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Inc./New Jersey Chapter Cranford, NJ

$125,000Payment Date: 4/4/2016

Toward Acute Myeloid Leukemia research

The Rockefeller University New York, NY

$125,000Payment Date: 4/4/2016

Toward the purchase of a supercomputer for the proposed research computing facility

Yale University/School of Medicine New Haven, CT

$150,000Payment Date: 4/4/2016

Toward operational costs of the CNNR Imaging Facility

Program Area Total: $2,380,000