Health Grants Made in 2014
For: Alzheimer’s basic science research through the National Office-$300,000; for Northern New Jersey programs through the Greater New Jersey Chapter-$50,000 (this grant comprised our total support through at least 2015)
For: Programs in the Northwest New Jersey Region-$100,000; National Home Office-Cancer research-$250,000 for Post-doctoral Fellows, Alexander Valvezan, Ph.D. and Bryan Yestrepsky, Ph.D.
Toward Mentor-Based Postdoctoral and Mentor-Based Minority Postdoctoral Fellowships within the realm of type 1 diabetes projects only
For: Basic Research Grant Program
Toward basic, biomedical cardiac and stroke research projects in New Jersey
Toward the Scholars Program for the Study of Post-Transplant Complications
For: The Irvington Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
Toward expanding the capabilities of the F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center’s Assay Development and Screening Core
For: Continued collaboration of Drs. Sam Pfaff and Reggie Edgerton to identify, locate, and characterize the role of interneurons in the human spinal cord
Toward the Research Training Awards Program
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
For: Support of research directed toward better treatment and prevention of osteoarthritis
Toward the Beta Cell Restoration program
Toward the establishment of the Center for Biomedical Engineering
Toward renewed support of the F.M. Kirby Foundation Brain Tumor Research Fund
For: Researching the mechanisms of cellular quality control using the red blood cell model
Toward direct costs only in Postdoctoral Training: Reproductive Biomedicine and Biomedical HIV Research
Toward the Translational Cancer Research Fellowship program
For: Capital equipment for the F.M. Kirby Center for Molecular Ophthalmology (this grant comprised our total support through 2015)
For: The Krim Fellows Program
Toward the Celator Project
Toward the purchase of a light sheet ultramicroscope
Toward the CNNR Imaging Facility Capital Equipment Fund-$75,000
Program Area Total: $4,135,000