Recent Grants

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Health Grants Made in 2021

Alzheimer’s Association/National Office Chicago, IL

$125,000Payment Date: 5/3/2021

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

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

$250,000Payment Date: 9/13/2021

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: 5/28/2021

For: Support of the COVID-19 Action Initiative

Autism Speaks, Inc. Princeton, NJ

$40,000Payment Date: 12/17/2021

Toward the Early Career Fellowship program focused in translational science

Cancer Research Institute, Inc. New York, NY

$75,000Payment Date: 1/29/2021

For: The Irvington Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

Children’s Hospital Corporation Boston, MA

$200,000Payment Date: 5/3/2021

Toward the F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center, specifically the Innovation and Education Fund-$150,000; toward Equity, Diversity and Inclusion internship initiative-$50,000

Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation Short Hills, NJ

$115,000Payment Date: 12/20/2021

For: Support of the Big Idea clinical trial funded by the Reeve Foundation at the University of Louisville Kentucky Spinal Cord Injury Research Center

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor, NY

$115,000Payment Date: 9/13/2021

For: Support of research in the lab of Dr. John Moses

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

$70,000Payment Date: 10/29/2021

Toward two Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation Research Fellowship Awards

Foundation for Morristown Medical Center, Inc. Morristown, NJ

$125,000Payment Date: 9/13/2021

Toward support of the renovation and expansion of the Emergency Department

Fox Chase Cancer Center Philadelphia, PA

$75,000Payment Date: 7/30/2021

Toward support of Dr. Christina Uribe-Alvarez’s research project on melanoma

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

$25,000Payment Date: 4/30/2021

JDRF International New York, NY

$200,000Payment Date: 12/20/2021

Toward Beta Cell Replacement research and Regeneration work

Kennedy Krieger Institute Baltimore, MD

$125,000Payment Date: 12/20/2021

For: Support of the Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI) scanner facility

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center New York, NY

$75,000Payment Date: 12/17/2021

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

Overlook Foundation Summit, NJ

$80,000Payment Date: 12/21/2021

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

Scheie Eye Institute Philadelphia, PA

$125,000Payment Date: 5/3/2021

For: Capital equipment for the F.M. Kirby Center for Molecular Ophthalmology

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

$100,000Payment Date: 5/3/2021

Toward the LLS Children’s Initiative

The Rockefeller University New York, NY

$125,000Payment Date: 12/20/2021

Toward construction of a next-generation light-sheet microscope

Trudeau Institute, Inc. Saranac Lake, NY

$45,000Payment Date: 6/30/2021

Toward support of the Luthra/Sheinerman Coronavirus Program

United Network for Organ Sharing Richmond, VA

$75,000Payment Date: 5/28/2021

Toward support of simulation modeling and related general operating expenses for UNOS Labs

Yale University/School of Medicine New Haven, CT

$110,000Payment Date: 5/3/2021

Toward operational costs of the CNNR Imaging Facility

Program Area Total: $2,310,000