Research NewsletterIssue: ORN-2022-01

The NSF I-Corps Northeast Hub

First Regional Training Program: February 28 – March 23, 2022

Information Session: January 14, 2022; 2.00 PM

https://icorpsnortheasthub.org/

• The I-Corps program helps researchers explore the potential for their discoveries to become products and services that can benefit society.
• Researchers form teams and attend a 4-session program focused on identifying how their innovation meets customer needs. 
• Teams can include faculty, postdoctoral researchers, graduate students and/or undergraduates who are developing a scientific or technical discovery at any institution in the Northeast.

Information Session: Learn how the NSF I-Corps Hub Northeast Regional Program can help you evaluate your research discovery or technology for its potential to benefit society as the basis of a startup or venture.  This information session will help you decide if the I-Corps Regional Program is right for you and your team. I-Corps is a National Science Foundation-funded program to help researchers quickly evaluate the commercial potential of a research discovery to put it on the path to startup success. I-Corps Lead Instructor Christina Pellicane, assistant director of innovation at Princeton University will provide an overview of the I-Corps Northeast Regional Program and answer your questions. All researchers (faculty members, staff researchers, postdoctoral researchers, graduate students and undergraduates) are welcome to attend. Registration website: https://icorpsnortheasthub.org/events/2022/information-session

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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: Accelerating Innovations in Biomanufacturing Approaches through Collaboration Between NSF and the DOE BETO funded Agile BioFoundry (NSF-DOE/ABF Collaboration); EHR Core Research: Building Capacity in STEM Education Research (ECR: BCSER); Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE): Use-Inspired Research Challenges on Climate Change and Clean Energy); Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER); Leading Culture Change Through Professional Societies of Biology (BIO-LEAPS); Division of Environmental Biology (core programs) (DEB); Hydrologic Sciences (HS); NSF/CASIS Collaboration on Transport Phenomena Research on the International Space Station (ISS) to Benefit Life on Earth; NSF Convergence Accelerator 2022 Joint NSF/DOD Phases 1 and 2 for Track G: Securely Operating Through 5G Infrastructure; 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)

NIH: High-End Instrumentation (HEI) Grant Program (S10); Shared Instrumentation Grant (SIG) Program (S10); Biomedical Research Facilities (C06); Research on Current Topics in Alzheimer's Disease and Its Related Dementias (R21); Supporting Talented Early Career Researchers in Genomics (R01), BRAIN Initiative-Related Research Education: Short Courses (R25)

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: Energy Frontier Research Centers; 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: Fellowships, Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities; Institutes for Higher Education Faculty; Digital Humanities Advancement Grants

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

Transportation Secretary Pushes for Government Support for Vehicle Innovation: Speaking remotely on the second day of the annual Consumer Electronics Show, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg discussed the agency’s commitment to fostering technological growth for U.S. travelers. Between establishing oversight for autonomous vehicle operations to researching smarter pavement material, Buttigieg reaffirmed the department’s mission to support advanced technology.  “Transportation and technology have always gone together,” he said on Thursday. The former mayor specifically outlined several principles Transportation is adopting to help make American transportation systems compatible with new technology. These include supporting innovation on a policy level, helping communities adapt to new technology, supporting workers, creating an environment that fosters experimentation, and encouraging collaborations between the public and private sectors.  Buttigieg dispelled the notion that government bodies cannot support advances in public technology, mentioning the historical examples of government's investment in the inputs of some of the most popular and prominent modern technologies, such as lithium batteries for iPhones.

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U.S. Supercomputer to Support Renewable Energy Innovation Coming in 2023: The Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory, or NREL, is set to gain a powerful new supercomputer that will support huge, data-intensive workloads and necessary research and development to help the nation prepare for future clean energy-aligned needs. Anticipated to operate at approximately 44 petaflops, that fresh machine—named Kestrel—will boast more than five times greater performance potential than NREL’s existing system. “Based on the recently published top500 list, Kestrel is expected to be among the top 10 computers in the U.S. when fully deployed,” NREL Laboratory Program Manager for Advanced Computing Dr. Kristin Munch told Nextgov in an email. Previous generations of the lab’s high performance computing systems, Peregrine and Eagle, were named after birds. Sticking to that theme, Kestrel’s name comes from that of the American falcon. Once it’s fully built, likely in 2023, the supercomputer will be hosted at NREL’s Energy Systems Integration Facility data center in Golden, Colorado. More information is posted on the NextGov website.

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Defense Official: Talent Tops Tools for Executing Data Strategy: International adversaries have some advantages in the artificial intelligence race but the U.S.’s strengths—people and results—are more important, according to a key Defense Department official. Given its population, China may have a larger pool from which to extract data for use in artificial intelligence applications. But more important than the quantity of data being processed, is an eye for outcomes and people who can achieve them while working within the confines of democracy. “It’s a competition of ideas,” said DOD Chief Data Officer David Spirk. “It's a competition across the continuum of competition with people who don't have the values of America and our partners and allies. And if we don't encourage that talent to come in, to be a part of this movement, not just in the Department of Defense, but in the U.S. government … then we will fall behind.” More information is posted on the NextGov website.

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