Recent research and training grants
Archived article from Jan 26, 2001
Biomaterials postdocs
The New Jersey Center for Biomaterials will receive $938,000 over five years from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health for the implementation of a novel postdoctoral training program. The grant will support interdisciplinary research training for postgraduate clinical and postdoctoral academic scientists in the fields of tissue engineering and implant science.
The special focus of the program will be the materials science aspects of tissue engineering in general and the development of cardiovascular devices in particular. This two-year training program is structured both vertically -- from "bench to bed" -- and horizontally across disciplines. The program is designed to advance tissue-engineering therapies to clinical application.
The New Jersey Center for Biomaterials is a cooperative research initiative sponsored by Rutgers, UMDNJ, NJIT and the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology, in coordination with Princeton University and the Associated Institutions for Material Sciences. For nurse practitioners
The College of Nursing has received a grant of $821,000 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to fund an adult acute-care nurse practitioners program. The program was designed by Gloria J. McNeal, assistant professor of nursing, in collaboration with clinicians at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. A portion of the grant is being used to create a state-of-the-art simulated critical care unit to prepare students to practice in a variety of clinical settings. The program will provide more than 650 hours of clinical instruction coupled with classroom study. Student scholars
The National Institutes of Health has made a three-year, $750,000 Science Education Partnership Award to the Waksman Student Scholars Program. The grant will be used to introduce the program to the World Wide Web, making it available to anyone logged on to the Internet.
The Waksman program fosters a research-rich climate in high schools by establishing relations between teams of high school teachers and students, and research scientists. The year-long program includes a four-week summer research institute for selected high school teams composed of two students, a teacher and a prospective teacher. During the academic year, these teams continue their summer research projects in their schools, and report their results at poster sessions in June.
The Internet version will include an Internet textbook, a laboratory manual, a research guide, tutorials and examinations.
Developing intellectual property
The New Jersey Center for Biomaterials has received a three-year, $600,000 National Science Foundation Partner-ships for Innovation award to explore new approaches to developing models that will enhance the use of under-utilized intellectual property (IP) in the field of biomaterials. Two complementary models will deal with industrial IP and academic IP.
The center has assembled a team of scientific investigators and key Rutgers participants to design, implement and evaluate the new models for developing IP. Collaborating on this project, under center director Joachim Kohn's leadership, will be Joseph Seneca, university vice president for academic affairs; William Adams, director of the Office of Corporate Liaison and Technology Transfer; David Guston, associate professor of public policy at the Bloustein School; and Thomas Bryant, State of New Jersey Chair in Small Business and Entrepreneurship and director of entrepreneurial management programs in the Faculty of Management-Newark.
Michael Jaffe, research professor of biomedical engineering at NJIT, and Bozena Michniak, associate professor of pharmacology at UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School and the Rutgers College of Pharmacy, will share the scientific leadership with Kohn.
Legal assistance
A $595,000 grant through the U.S. Department of Education will support public-interest and clinical-education programs at the School of Law-Camden. The one-year award will enable the law school to offer scholarship assistance to recruit students who are committed to public-interest projects. It also will support the activities of the LEAP Legal Clinic, which offers legal assistance to families affiliated with the LEAP Academy charter school in Camden; the Civil Practice Clinic at the law school; and the Pro Bono Project, also at the law school.
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