Recent Grants

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Health Grants Made in 2020

Alzheimer’s Association/National Office Chicago, IL

$125,000Payment Date: 4/29/2020

For: Support for Early-Career Investigators through the International Research Grant Program

Alzheimer’s New Jersey, Inc. Roseland, NJ

$25,000Payment Date: 3/31/2020

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

$250,000Payment Date: 9/14/2020

For: Programs in the Northwest New Jersey Region-$30,000; National Home Office-Extramural Research support in immunotherapy-$220,000

American Lung Association/National New York, NY

$35,000Payment Date: 7/31/2020

For: Support of the COVID-19 Action Initiative

Autism Speaks, Inc. Princeton, NJ

$40,000Payment Date: 9/30/2020

Toward the Early Career Fellowship program focused in translational science

Cancer Research Institute, Inc. New York, NY

$75,000Payment Date: 4/30/2020

For: The Irvington Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

Children’s Hospital Corporation Boston, MA

$175,000Payment Date: 4/29/2020

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

Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation Short Hills, NJ

$115,000Payment Date: 12/14/2020

For: Continued support of the work of Drs. Chet Moritz and Murray Blackmore

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor, NY

$115,000Payment Date: 6/30/2020

Toward the purchase of a Nuclear Magnetic Response (NMR) machine

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

$75,000Payment Date: 5/29/2020

Toward two CCF Research Fellowship Awards

Foundation for Morristown Medical Center, Inc. Morristown, NJ

$125,000Payment Date: 5/29/2020

Toward Valerie Fund Children’s Center for pediatric cancer and blood disorders expansion (Growing Forward Campaign)

Hearing Health Foundation (formerly Deafness Research Foundation) New York, NY

$25,000Payment Date: 2/28/2020

Hospital For Special Surgery New York, NY

$80,000Payment Date: 6/30/2020

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

JDRF International New York, NY

$200,000Payment Date: 9/14/2020

Toward Beta Cell Replacement research and Regeneration work

Kennedy Krieger Institute Baltimore, MD

$125,000Payment Date: 4/29/2020

Toward support of the F. M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain Imaging

Little Falls Hospital Cooperstown,

$415,000Payment Date: 1/6/2020

Toward the new construction of the Walker D. Kirby Primary Care Center (including the wellness community space) in Dolgeville, NY-$420,000 in 2018, and $415,000 in 2019 and 2020

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center New York, NY

$75,000Payment Date: 11/30/2020

For: Support of the work of Dr. Adrienne Boire within MSK’s Brain Tumor Center

Overlook Foundation Summit, NJ

$85,000Payment Date: 12/15/2020

Toward the construction and naming of the F. M. Kirby Foundation Neuroscience Center at Overlook Medical Center-$170,000 in 2020 and $80,000 in 2021

Overlook Foundation Summit, NJ

$85,000Payment Date: 4/29/2020

Toward the construction and naming of the F. M. Kirby Foundation Neuroscience Center at Overlook Medical Center-$170,000 in 2020 and $80,000 in 2021

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

$100,000Payment Date: 4/29/2020

Toward the LLS Children’s Initiative

The Rockefeller University New York, NY

$125,000Payment Date: 4/29/2020

Toward the purchase of a scanning electron microscope

Trudeau Institute, Inc. Saranac Lake, NY

$40,000Payment Date: 5/29/2020

Toward the purchase of a combined Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry System

United Network for Organ Sharing Richmond, VA

$75,000Payment Date: 4/30/2020

Toward general operating support for UNOS Labs

Yale University/School of Medicine New Haven, CT

$100,000Payment Date: 4/29/2020

Toward operational costs of the CNNR Imaging Facility

Program Area Total: $2,685,000