Category Health
Grants Made in 2014
Alzheimer’s Association/National Office
Amount
$350,000
Category
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 shall comprise our total support through at least 2015)
American Cancer Society, Inc./Eastern Division
Amount
$350,000
Category
Health
Grants Made in
2014
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.
American Diabetes Association Research Foundation, Inc.
Amount
$80,000
Category
Health
Grants Made in
2014
Toward Mentor-Based Postdoctoral and Mentor-Based Minority Postdoctoral Fellowships within the realm of type 1 diabetes projects only
American Federation for Aging Research
Amount
$100,000
Category
Health
Grants Made in
2014
For: Basic Research Grant Program
American Heart Association, Inc./Founders Affiliate
Amount
$95,000
Category
Health
Grants Made in
2014
Toward basic, biomedical cardiac and stroke research projects in New Jersey
Amount
$75,000
Category
Health
Grants Made in
2014
Toward the Scholars Program for the Study of Post-Transplant Complications
Cancer Research Institute, Inc.
Amount
$120,000
Category
Health
Grants Made in
2014
For: The Irvington Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
Children’s Hospital Corporation
Amount
$300,000
Category
Health
Grants Made in
2014
Toward expanding the capabilities of the F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center’s Assay Development and Screening Core
Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation
Amount
$250,000
Category
Health
Grants Made in
2014
For: Continued collaboration of Drs. Sam Pfaff and Reggie Edgerton to identify, locate, and characterize the role of interneurons in the human spinal cord
Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America, Inc.
Amount
$120,000
Category
Health
Grants Made in
2014
Toward the Research Training Awards Program
Foundation for Morristown Medical Center, Inc.
Amount
$250,000
Category
Health
Grants Made in
2014
For: The expansion and facilities upgrade of the Inpatient Psychiatric Unit-$200,000; like amount for like use pledged for 2015 and 2016; toward a fund or project that shall honor Denny Baird-$50,000 in 2014
Hospital For Special Surgery
Amount
$100,000
Category
Health
Grants Made in
2014
For: Support of research directed toward better treatment and prevention of osteoarthritis
JDRF (formerly Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation)
Amount
$150,000
Category
Health
Grants Made in
2014
Toward the Beta Cell Restoration program
Kennedy Krieger Institute
Amount
$200,000
Category
Health
Grants Made in
2014
Toward the establishment of the Center for Biomedical Engineering
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Amount
$200,000
Category
Health
Grants Made in
2014
Toward renewed support of the F.M. Kirby Foundation Brain Tumor Research Fund
New York Blood Center, Inc.
Amount
$75,000
Category
Health
Grants Made in
2014
For: Researching the mechanisms of cellular quality control using the red blood cell model
Amount
$120,000
Category
Health
Grants Made in
2014
Toward direct costs only in Postdoctoral Training: Reproductive Biomedicine and Biomedical HIV Research
Rutgers University Foundation/Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey
Amount
$120,000
Category
Health
Grants Made in
2014
Toward the Translational Cancer Research Fellowship program
Amount
$300,000
Category
Health
Grants Made in
2014
For: Capital equipment for the F.M. Kirby Center for Molecular Ophthalmology (this grant shall comprise our total support through 2015)
The Foundation Fighting Blindness, Inc.
Amount
$60,000
Category
Health
Grants Made in
2014
The Foundation for AIDS Research
Amount
$75,000
Category
Health
Grants Made in
2014
For: The Krim Fellows Program
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Inc./New Jersey Chapter
Amount
$250,000
Category
Health
Grants Made in
2014
Toward the Celator Project
The Rockefeller University
Amount
$175,000
Category
Health
Grants Made in
2014
Toward the purchase of a light sheet ultramicroscope
The Skin Cancer Foundation, Inc.
Amount
$20,000
Category
Health
Grants Made in
2014
Yale University/School of Medicine
Amount
$200,000
Category
Health
Grants Made in
2014
Toward the CNNR Imaging Facility Capital Equipment Fund-$75,000
Total $4,135,000