Research NewsletterIssue: ORN-2021-49

NAI-NJIT Chapter Workshop

Sustainable Societies: Global Healthcare

Innovations to Global Solutions

In Conjunction with

President’s Forum

and

NJIT 2022 Research Institutes, Centers and Laboratory Showcase

February 21, 2022; 9.00 AM – 2.00 PM

Ballroom A/B and Gallery, Campus Center, NJIT

Abstract: As the world continues to evolve with increasing population and life expectancy along with urbanization and socio-economic inequalities, the global community is now facing a critical grand challenge of quality healthcare at affordable cost. According to the data published by World Health Organization (WHO), top global causes of death, in order of total number of lives lost but not including pandemic outbreaks, are associated with three broad topics: cardiovascular (ischemic heart disease, stroke), respiratory (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lower respiratory infections) and neonatal conditions.

Though the recent technological and pharmaceutical advances in healthcare have enabled tremendous improvements in diagnosis, treatment and therapeutic intervention of critical diseases, healthcare remains one of the most critical challenges in communicable and non-communicable diseases due to barriers to accessibility and continuously rising costs directly impacting the sustainability of the global society, specifically in under-resourced as well as elderly communities in both developing and developed countries.

The Point-of-Care (POC) technologies have a potential to provide global healthcare at affordable costs towards personalized, preventive and precision medicine. The potential benefits of POC technologies in providing sustainable healthcare solutions for managing communicable as well as non-communicable diseases globally are becoming increasingly evident. The POC innovations and technologies can provide essential tools in delivering effective healthcare in public health emergencies, disaster situations, and under-resourced environments.

The workshop will provide an open forum to discuss innovative global solutions to address the healthcare grand challenge through preventive, personalized and precision medicine exploring the potential contributions of Point-of-Care technologies for communicable as well as non-communicable diseases.  The workshop will feature keynote talks and panel discussions by leaders from all stakeholder groups representing academic, industry, healthcare, and regulatory sectors to discuss potential pathways and collaborative synergies towards sustainable societies with affordable quality healthcare.

Panel-1 will focus on challenges associated with global healthcare for public health emergencies such as COVID-19 pandemic as well as critical non-communicable diseases. Lessons learned from the recent NIH’s successful RADx initiative in developing and accelerating the use of POC testing technologies for timely intervention and clinical management of COVID-19 pandemic will be discussed. The panel will also explore how challenges the US encounters managing patients across systems, spending limited resources effectively, and setting and meeting regulatory requirements become even more complex in global healthcare. Panel-2 will focus on technology innovation, translation, and scalability of innovative solutions to diverse environments and societies, each with unique care delivery models and opportunities. In addition, select research and development technologies in critical global healthcare applications will be explored.    

Program Agenda

8.30 AM – 9.00 AM:  Registration and Electronic PPT Poster Set-up

9.00 AM – 10.00 AM: NJIT Research Institutes, Centers and Laboratories Showcase: Electronic Poster  Session-1

10.00 AM – 10.05 AM: Welcome Remarks:

                                       Atam Dhawan, Senior Vice Provost for Research, NJIT

                                      Joel Bloom, President, NJIT

                                       Fadi Deek, Provost and Senior Executive Vice President, NJIT

10.05 AM – 10.10 AM: Program Agenda and Introduction to the Distinguished Speaker

                                       Atam Dhawan, Senior Vice Provost for Research, NJIT

10.10 AM – 10.50 AM:  Keynote Presentation: Opportunities in Engineering Medicine to Advance Global Healthcare

                                      Distinguished Speaker: Roderic Pettigrew, PhD, MD

                                       Chief Executive Officer of Engineering Health and Executive Dean Intercollegiate School of Engineering Medicine at Texas A&M University, Former Founding Director, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institutes of Health (NIH)

10.50 AM–11.30 AM: Distinguished Panel Discussion I: Sustainable Societies: Global Healthcare Challenges

Moderator:

Arunan Skandarajah, PhD

Presidential Innovation Fellow at FDA

Panelists:

Steven Schachter, MD

CTO, CIMIT

Jo Carol Hiatt, MD, MBA, FACS

Vice President, Health Economics and Patient Value, Medical Device Innovation Consortium

Yukari C. Manabe, MD

Associate Director of Global Health Research and Innovation, Professor of Medicine, JHU

11.30 AM–12.10 PM:    Distinguished Panel Discussion II: Sustainable societies: Global Healthcare Innovations

Moderator:

Reynold A. Panettieri, Jr., MD

Vice Chancellor for Translational Medicine and Science

Director, Rutgers Institute for Translational Medicine and Science

Professor of Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School               

Panelists:

Caroline Mbindyo

CEO, Amref Health Innovations

Treena Arinzeh, PhD

Distinguished Professor, NJIT

George F. Heinrich, MD

Vice Chair and CEO, Foundation Venture Capital Group, New Jersey Health Foundation

12.10 PM – 12.30 PM: Concluding Remarks

                                     Distinguished Speaker: Amadou Sall, PhD

                                    CEO of the Institut Pasteur de Dakar in Senegal 

12.30 PM – 1.00 PM: Lunch and Networking Session

1.00 PM – 2.00 PM:   NJIT Research Institutes, Centers and Laboratories Showcase: Electronic Poster Session-2

NSF: Special Guidelines for Submitting Collaborative Proposals under National Science Foundation and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Collaborative Opportunities in Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Science; Geospace Environment Modeling (GEM); NSF/CASIS Collaboration on Tissue Engineering and Mechanobiology on the International Space Station (ISS) to Benefit Life on Earth; Addressing Systems Challenges through Engineering Teams (ASCENT); Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier: Core Research (FW-HTF); Opportunities for Research and Education in the Critical-Zone (ORE-CZ); Mathematical and Scientific Foundations of Deep Learning and Related Areas (MoDL+); Cloud Computing and High-Throughput Computing Resources for Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (CRCNS) Grantees; Understanding the Rules of Life: Emergent Networks (URoL:EN); Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (STEM Ed PRF); Smart and Connected Communities (S&CC)

NIH: Supporting Talented Early Career Researchers in Genomics (R01), BRAIN Initiative-Related Research Education: Short Courses (R25), BRAIN Initiative: Research Resource Grants for Technology Integration and Dissemination (U24 High Impact, Interdisciplinary Science in NIDDK Research Areas (RC2)

Department of Defense/US Army/DARPA/ONR: Seeding Critical Advances for Leading Energy Technologies With Untapped Potential 2021; Systems Biology-Enabled Microbiome Research to Facilitate Predictions of Interactions and Behavior in the Environment; Genomics-Enabled Plant Biology for Determination of Gene Function; Science & Technology for Advanced Manufacturing Projects (STAMP); Automating Scientific Knowledge Extraction and Modeling (ASKEM); Advanced Graphic Intelligence Logical Computing Environment (AGILE); Strategic Technology Office (STO) Office-wide; Information Innovation Office (I2O) Office-Wide; Environmental Literacy Program: Increasing community resilience to extreme weather & climate change; Long Range Broad Agency Announcement for Navy and Marine Corps Science and Technology; MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURE SYSTEMS (MCS) BAA

Department of Transportation: FY 2021 Competitive Funding Opportunity: Enhancing Mobility Innovation

Department of Agriculture: Biotechnology Risk Assessment Research Grants Program; Solid Waste Management Grant Program

Department of Labor: Apprenticeship Building America (ABA) Grant Program

Department of Commerce/EDA:  Proposed Cooperative Institute for Earth System Research and Data Science; Precision Measurement Grant Program (PMGP); Environmental Literacy Program; FY2021 to FY2023 NOAA Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)

EPA: Enhanced Air Quality Monitoring for Communities

Department of Energy: Biosystems Design to Enable Safe Production of Next-Generation Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biomaterials; High-Energy-Density Plasma Laboratory Science; Fiscal Year 2022 Distinguished Early Career Program; SciDAC: Partnerships in Earth System Model Development; ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC)

NASA: ROSES 2021: Astrophysics Pioneers; ROSES: Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology; ROSES 2021: Land-Cover/Land-Use Change:SARI Synthesis

National Endowment of Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants

Private Foundations: L'Oréal: L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science International Fellowships program

Department of Energy Announces Second Round of FY 2021 Public-Private Partnership Awards to Advance Fusion Energy: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced awards for eight projects with private industry that will allow for collaboration with DOE national laboratories on overcoming challenges in fusion energy development. The awards are provided through the Innovation Network for Fusion Energy, or INFUSE, program, which was established in 2019. The program is sponsored by the Office of Fusion Energy Sciences within DOE’s Office of Science and is focused on accelerating fusion energy development through public-private research partnerships. “This series of selections marks the conclusion of the third year of the INFUSE program, which continues to draw in new applicants every call,” said James Van Dam, DOE Associate Director for Fusion Energy Sciences. “Support for INFUSE remains strong in the private fusion sector and we anticipate growing interest as the program continues to evolve moving forward.” The funded projects will provide companies with access to the leading expertise and facilities of DOE’s national laboratories to assist in addressing critical scientific and technological challenges in pursuing fusion energy systems. The program solicited proposals from the fusion industry and selected projects for one- or two-year awards of between $50,000 and $500,000 each, with a 20% cost share for industry partners. The awards are subject to a successful negotiation of a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement between the companies and the partnering laboratories.

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Computing on the Edge: Much of the federal government’s IT modernization efforts over the last decade have focused on centralizing computing power in the cloud. But as those capabilities increase, agencies must also be thinking about how to improve computing at the edge, on devices people can touch. For federal agencies, edge computing ranges from lower-powered devices like desktops, laptops and smartphones to high-performance supercomputers like those used at the Energy Department’s national labs and NASA, among others. The U.S. Postal Service is another such example, with its own Edge Computing Infrastructure Program, or ECIP, testing advanced tools at processing facilities. The result was a drastic reduction in people and time needed to track down missing items or decipher the right destination for a package with a damaged barcode. That use case is just one among more than three dozen ideas being explored across federal agencies. Download this special report for an in-depth look at how the federal government is computing on the edge.

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$75K Prize Competition Announced to Help Fight Disinformation on the Internet: Just a few weeks ago, the Aspen Institute Commission on Information Disorder released its final report on the dangers and consequences of internet dis- and misinformation. The report made 15 recommendations that would help government, the private sector and society at large increase transparency and understanding, build trust and reduce the harms caused by untrustworthy information. The institute has now announced a prize competition for proposals that implement one of those recommendations to alleviate the crisis of dis- and misinformation in the United States. Semi-finalists will be awarded $5,000, with the $75,000 grand prize going to the winner. The deadline for proposal applications is Jan. 10, 2022. The Aspen Institute is hosting a Q&A webinar at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 8; a recording will be made available afterward. Project teams are invited to propose a new, untested solution that specifically helps a particular recommendation of the report. The range of deliverables could be anything from new technologies and inventions to research projects and policy proposals. “Creativity is welcomed; projects should not feel constrained by these deliverables,” the institute stated in the press release announcing the competition. More information is posted on the NextGov website.

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House Science Committee Ponders Ways to Strengthen U.S. Semiconductor Industry: The same day that the Federal Trade Commission sued to block a $40 billion merger between two American semiconductor companies, the House Science Committee held a hearing on the topic of reinvigorating the U.S. semiconductor industry. The supply chain woes of the industry have been on full display during the pandemic. From automobiles to cellphones, smart household appliances to electronic toys and games, consumers have discovered things that they want to purchase are simply unavailable, whether because of shipping bottlenecks, semiconductor plants closed by climate events or workers sheltering at home, among other factors. The problem is exacerbated by a lack of U.S. chip manufacturers. In 1996, 37% of the world’s semiconductors were manufactured in the United States; by 2019, it had fallen to 12%. That statistic and other equally depressing figures were often cited by the witnesses called to testify at the hearing. More information is posted on the NextGov website.

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