Recent Grants

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Health Grants Made in 2014

Alzheimer’s Association/National Office Chicago, IL

$350,000Payment Date: 4/14/2014

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)

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

$350,000Payment Date: 12/15/2014

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. Arlington, VA

$80,000Payment Date: 9/15/2014

Toward Mentor-Based Postdoctoral and Mentor-Based Minority Postdoctoral Fellowships within the realm of type 1 diabetes projects only

American Federation for Aging Research New York, NY

$100,000Payment Date: 9/15/2014

For: Basic Research Grant Program

American Heart Association, Inc./Founders Affiliate Robbinsville, NJ

$95,000Payment Date: 9/15/2014

Toward basic, biomedical cardiac and stroke research projects in New Jersey

Be The Match Foundation Minneapolis, MN

$75,000Payment Date: 4/30/2014

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

Cancer Research Institute, Inc. New York, NY

$120,000Payment Date: 4/14/2014

For: The Irvington Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

Children’s Hospital Corporation Boston, MA

$300,000Payment Date: 4/14/2014

Toward expanding the capabilities of the F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center’s Assay Development and Screening Core

Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation Short Hills, NJ

$250,000Payment Date: 12/15/2014

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, Inc. New York, NY

$120,000Payment Date: 12/15/2014

Toward the Research Training Awards Program

Foundation for Morristown Medical Center, Inc. Morristown, NJ

$250,000Payment Date: 9/15/2014

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

Hospital For Special Surgery New York, NY

$100,000Payment Date: 12/15/2014

For: Support of research directed toward better treatment and prevention of osteoarthritis

JDRF International New York, NY

$150,000Payment Date: 9/15/2014

Toward the Beta Cell Restoration program

Kennedy Krieger Institute Baltimore, MD

$200,000Payment Date: 4/14/2014

Toward the establishment of the Center for Biomedical Engineering

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center New York, NY

$200,000Payment Date: 4/14/2014

Toward renewed support of the F.M. Kirby Foundation Brain Tumor Research Fund

New York Blood Center, Inc. New York, NY

$75,000Payment Date: 1/31/2014

For: Researching the mechanisms of cellular quality control using the red blood cell model

Population Council, Inc. New York, NY

$120,000Payment Date: 4/14/2014

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

Rutgers University Foundation/Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey New Brunswick, NJ

$120,000Payment Date: 4/14/2014

Toward the Translational Cancer Research Fellowship program

Scheie Eye Institute Philadelphia, PA

$300,000Payment Date: 4/14/2014

For: Capital equipment for the F.M. Kirby Center for Molecular Ophthalmology (this grant comprised our total support through 2015)

The Foundation Fighting Blindness, Inc. Columbia, MD

$60,000Payment Date: 7/31/2014

The Foundation for AIDS Research New York, NY

$75,000Payment Date: 1/31/2014

For: The Krim Fellows Program

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

$250,000Payment Date: 4/14/2014

Toward the Celator Project

The Rockefeller University New York, NY

$175,000Payment Date: 4/14/2014

Toward the purchase of a light sheet ultramicroscope

The Skin Cancer Foundation, Inc. New York, NY

$20,000Payment Date: 8/29/2014

Yale University/School of Medicine New Haven, CT

$200,000Payment Date: 4/14/2014

Toward the CNNR Imaging Facility Capital Equipment Fund-$75,000

Program Area Total: $4,135,000