Defense
Mass Casualty First Responders Disaster Surge Technology Program
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
1 Robert Wood Johnson Place
New Brunswick, NJ 08903
To determine best practices for management of blast injury-related disasters and all-hazards mass casualty events. The Mass Casualty First Responders Disaster Surge Technology Program is designed to define, exercise, and refine best practices for management of blast injury-related disasters and all-hazards mass casualty events. This project is of significance to both military and civilian health care in that the information derived can be used to optimize response to mass casualty events to save lives and limbs and to preserve functional status of victims.
Request: $3,000,000
New Jersey Technology Solutions Center
New Jersey Technology Solutions Center
1161 Broad Street
Suite 212
Shrewsbury, NJ 07702
For expansion and development of the NJTSC to take development jobs in response to the closing of Ft. Monmouth. Federal funding of this project has many benefits to the taxpayers. NJTSC will grow high skill, high wage jobs in Central New Jersey. These positions will be designed to take advantage of the highly skilled Fort Monmouth workforce that chooses not be move with the mission to Aberdeen, MD. The NJTSC will give the U.S. Army unparalleled reach back-capabilities to allow for continuity in Warfighter support for the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT). This highly skilled workforce will develop a technology center of excellence that will allow other federal, state and local agencies the opportunity take advantage of these talents and capabilities.
Request: $40,000,000
School of Science Initiative
Monmouth University
400 Cedar Avenue
West Long Branch, NJ 07764
To enhance education and research with an overall goal of attracting and retaining more students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. This initiative supports the critical national need to train more students in STEM disciplines. STEM disciplines are involved in every major global problem and STEM disciplines will provide solutions to these problems. This project will benefit the State of NJ by supporting training for NJ residents in STEM disciplines, encouraging promising college students to stay in NJ for their education, and has the potential to support the NJ STEM workforce by providing high-quality graduates trained in STEM disciplines.
Request: $3,600,000
UMDNJ Cancer Initiative
The Cancer Institute of New Jersey
195 Little Albany Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08903
To generate novel approaches to prevent, diagnose, and treat prostate cancer. Prostate cancer is a major public health concern, particularly in New Jersey, which leads the nation in prostate cancer incidence and death rates. It is also a major concern of the military health system as evidenced by its commitment to the DOD Prostate Cancer Research Program. CINJ's efforts are at the forefront of the effort to eradicate this disease and improve the overall quality of life for at-risk military and civilian populations. Continued DOD support will accelerate CINJ's work.
Request: $7,073,479
University Center for Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Response
University Center for Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Response
125 Paterson Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
To develop the UCDPER and support its efforts to protect New Jersey and the nation from disasters. UCDPER is the ideal entity to prepare the nation to respond to a natural or accidental disaster or terrorist attack due to its partner institutions' unique combination of expertise in medicine and health care, pharmacology and drug development, environmental and exposure science, mathematics and computational sciences, engineering and transportation sciences, and communications and social/behavioral sciences, and its location in NJ, with its population density and critical infrastructure.
Request: $5,500,000
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