Recent Grants

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Health Grants Made in 2015

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

$325,000Payment Date: 12/11/2015

For: Programs in the Northwest New Jersey Region-$75,000; National Home Office-Extramural Research support in immunotherapy-$250,000

American Diabetes Association Research Foundation, Inc. Arlington, VA

$90,000Payment Date: 12/11/2015

Toward a one-year, basic science award for Dr. Garcia-Ocana’s research to protect pancreatic beta cells to prevent or delay the onset of type 1 diabetes

American Federation for Aging Research New York, NY

$50,000Payment Date: 7/31/2015

For: Basic Research Grant Program

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

$50,000Payment Date: 7/31/2015

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

Be The Match Foundation Minneapolis, MN

$80,000Payment Date: 4/13/2015

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

Cancer Research Institute, Inc. New York, NY

$100,000Payment Date: 4/13/2015

For: The Irvington Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

Children’s Hospital Corporation Boston, MA

$250,000Payment Date: 4/13/2015

Toward the F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center, specifically the Innovation and Education Fund

Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation Short Hills, NJ

$150,000Payment Date: 12/11/2015

For: Support of Dr. Sam Pfaff’s and Dr. Chet Moritz’s collaborative work to identify, locate, and characterize the role of interneurons in the human spinal cord

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor, NY

$150,000Payment Date: 4/13/2015

For: Start-up and operational support of the Preclinical Experimental Therapeutics (PET) facility

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

$100,000Payment Date: 12/11/2015

Toward two CCFA Research Fellowship Awards

Foundation for Morristown Medical Center, Inc. Morristown, NJ

$200,000Payment Date: 9/15/2015

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: 12/11/2015

For: Support of additional pilot projects aimed at better treatment and prevention of osteoarthritis

JDRF International New York, NY

$175,000Payment Date: 9/14/2015

Toward Beta Cell Restoration and Beta Cell Replacement research

Kennedy Krieger Institute Baltimore, MD

$150,000Payment Date: 4/13/2015

Toward the upgrade of the Institute’s Motor Recovery Center

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center New York, NY

$175,000Payment Date: 9/14/2015

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

Overlook Foundation Summit, NJ

$60,000Payment Date: 6/30/2015

Toward the purchase of three (3) RPXpress devices

Population Council, Inc. New York, NY

$90,000Payment Date: 4/13/2015

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: 4/13/2015

Toward the Translational Cancer Research Fellowship program

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

$160,000Payment Date: 4/13/2015

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

The Foundation Fighting Blindness, Inc. Columbia, MD

$30,000Payment Date: 7/31/2015

For: Retinal degenerative disease research funded through the Alan Laties Career Development Program

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

$200,000Payment Date: 4/13/2015

Toward the Celator Project

The Rockefeller University New York, NY

$150,000Payment Date: 4/13/2015

Toward the purchase of microfabrication equipment for the Precision Fabrication Facility

The Skin Cancer Foundation, Inc. New York, NY

$10,000Payment Date: 9/30/2015

Yale University/School of Medicine New Haven, CT

$200,000Payment Date: 4/13/2015

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

Program Area Total: $3,165,000