Research NewsletterIssue: ORN-2022-04

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: Capacity in Quantum Information Science and Engineering (ExpandQISE); Petrology and Geochemistry (CH); NSF Boosting Research Ideas for Transformative and Equitable Advances in Engineering (BRITE); Research Coordination Networks: Fostering and Nurturing a Diverse Community of CI Professionals (RCN:CIP); Semiconductor Synthetic Biology Circuits and Communications for Information Storage (SemiSynBio-III); Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) Equity Resource Center (AISL-ERC); Pathways into the Earth, Ocean, Polar and Atmospheric & Geospace Sciences (GEOPAths); Molecular Foundations for Biotechnology (MFB): Partnerships to Transform Emerging Industries; Announcement of Upcoming Topics for the 2022 NSF Convergence Accelerator Solicitation; Signals in the Soil (SitS); 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)

NIH: NIMH Instrumentation Program (S10); BRAIN Initiative: Development of Novel Tools to Probe Cell-Specific and Circuit-Specific Processes in Human and Non-Human Primate Brain (UG3/UH3); BRAIN Initiative: Standards to Define Experiments Related to the BRAIN Initiative (R01); Exploratory/Developmental Bioengineering Research Grants (EBRG) (R21); Pilot Studies for the Spectrum of Alzheimer’s Disease/Alzheimer’s Disease-Related Dementias and Age-Related Cognitive Decline (R61); High-End Instrumentation (HEI) Grant Program (S10); Shared Instrumentation Grant (SIG) Program (S10)

Department of Defense/US Army/DARPA/ONR: Real-Time Assessment and Augmentation of Cognitive Performance in Extreme Environments; Science & Technology for Advanced Manufacturing Projects (STAMP); Strategic Technology Office (STO) Office-wide; Information Innovation Office (I2O) Office-Wide; 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: Announcement for Program Funding for NRCS’s Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP); Biotechnology Risk Assessment Research Grants Program

Department of Labor: NJ Pathways Leading Apprentices to a College Education; Apprenticeship Building America (ABA) Grant Program

Department of Commerce/EDA:  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; High-Energy-Density Plasma Laboratory Science

NASA: ROSES 2021: Astrophysics Pioneers; ROSES: Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology

National Endowment of Humanities: Fellowships; Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities; Institutes for Higher Education Faculty

Private Foundations: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) Grants

Signals From the Scientific Community: Support For NSF, DOE, and NIST Provisions in the America Competes Act Of 2022: The House posted text of the America Creating Opportunities for Manufacturing, Pre-Eminence in Technology and Economic Strength Act of 2022. The America COMPETES Act of 2022 includes a historic investment to surge production of American-made semiconductors, tackles supply chain vulnerabilities to make more goods in America, bolsters America’s scientific research and technological leadership, and strengthens America’s economic and national security at home and abroad. The America COMPETES Act of 2022 includes transformative and bipartisan legislation from the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.

Here are some of the endorsements in support of legislation from the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology included in the America COMPETES Act of 2022: Full lists of endorsements here. More information is posted on the US House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology website.

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Using AI, ML Will Help the Government Tackle Climate Change: The frequency and magnitude of natural disasters such as hurricanes, wildfires and floods has been growing for a number of years. Panelists for the Advanced Technology Academic Research Center’s Jan. 26 webinar “Leveraging Predictive Analytics to Address Climate Change Issues” discussed how the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning can provide both short- and long-term guidance for decisionmakers considering how to ameliorate impacts. According to the National Centers for Environmental Information, which is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, in 2021 there were 20 weather and climate disaster events that incurred losses of more than $1 billion each. From 1980 to 2021, the annual average was 7.4 events (adjusted for inflation), but from 2017 to 2021, the most recent five years, the average number of events was 17.2 (adjusted for inflation). In short, the problem is getting worse, and faster. More information is posted on the NextGov website.

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Guidance for U.S. Scientific Research Security that Preserves International Collaboration: The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released  guidance to all federal research agencies on how to implement the requirements in National Security Presidential Memorandum 33 (NSPM-33). The complete implementation guidance is posted on the website https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/010422-NSPM-33-Implementation-Guidance.pdf A copy of this guidance document is attached for your quick reference.  The following blog is posted on the CRA (Computing Research Association) website https://cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2022/01/ostp-research-security-guidance/  "An on-going concern with efforts to crack down on this “research security” problem is that it could lead to singling out people of specific ethnicities, particular those of Chinese descent. OSTP and the National Science and Technology Council were as concerned about not fueling prejudice and xenophobia as they were about protecting research. In fact, the “General Implementation Guidance” (page 1) states that research agencies need to engage with the research community throughout their implementation process, as well as to adopt measures that are “risk-based,” while avoiding retroactive application of measures. While this appears to be a good first step, there is still much work to be do, most significantly each research agency will need to put out their specific policies.

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