Research NewsletterIssue: ORN-2022-05

POCTRN Announces New Funding Opportunities From Four Centers

Expressions of Interest are due February 28, 2022

The NIH’s Point-of-Care Technology Research Network (POCTRN) drives the development of point-of-care technologies through collaborative efforts that merge scientific and technological capabilities with clinical need.

Microfluidics/Lab-on-a-Chip/Microchip-Based Point-of-Care Technologies: Atlanta Center for Microsystems Engineered Point-of-Care Technologies

Center for Advancing Point of Care Technologies in Heart, Lung, Blood and Sleep Disorders – Funding Opportunity

Point-of-Care Technologies for HIV/AIDS in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: The Center for Innovation in Point of Care Technologies for HIV/AIDS at Northwestern

Improvements to Rapid Simple 

Point-of-Care Tests for Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Johns Hopkins University Center for Point of Care Technologies Research for Sexually Transmitted Diseases

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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.

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: Geophysics (PH); 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)

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: The Department of Defense (DoD) Fiscal Year 2023 Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP); Fiscal Year 2022 Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Program; 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: FY 22 National Urban and Community Forestry Grant Program; 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: Early Career Faculty: ROSES 2021: Astrophysics Pioneers

National Endowment of Humanities: Humanities Initiatives; Fellowships; Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities

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

NIH Grant Applications: Biosketch Format Pages, Instructions and Samples: Biosketches are required in both competing applications and progress reports. Find instructions, blank format pages, and sample biosketches below. Try SciENcv, a tool supporting multiple research agencies, to help you develop your biosketch and automatically format it according to NIH requirements. The biosketch format page has been updated for application due dates and RPPR submissions on/after January 25, 2022 (See NOT-OD-21-073 / NOT-OD-21-110 for specific changes and details). Use the tabs to access the correct format page for your due date.

Supporting Documentation: For Other Support submissions that include foreign activities and resources, recipients are required to submit copies of contracts, grants or any other agreement specific to senior/keypersonnel foreign appointments and/or employment with a foreign institution as supporting documentation. If they are not in English, recipients must provide translated copies. This supporting documentation must be provided as part of the Other Support PDF following the Other Support Format page.

More information about proposal submission requirements is posted on NJIT Research Website under For Researchers – Pre-Award Services webpage https://research.njit.edu/pre-award-services:

NIH Biosketch Format Pages, Instructions and Samples

NIH Other Support Format Pages, Instructions and Samples

NSF-Approved Formats for the Biographical Sketch

NSF-Approved Formats for Current and Pending Support

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Defense Department Previews New Future-Facing Technology Aims: The Defense Department released a broad plan to expand and ensure its technological edge on the shifting global conflict stage—equipped with a list of more than a dozen technologies it is prioritizing in the near term—via a six-page memorandum published on Thursday. Penned by Defense Undersecretary for Research and Engineering and DOD Chief Technology Officer Heidi Shyu, the USD(R&E) Technology Vision for an Era of Competition previews the impending National Defense Science and Technology Strategy and its development. Shyu’s office will also steer the making of that future-facing blueprint. President Joe Biden’s administration is placing a sharp focus on strategic competition, particularly with Russia and China, as it crafts the latest National Defense Strategy that’s expected to be released early this year. More information is posted on the NextGov website.

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House passed the America Creating Opportunities for Manufacturing, Pre-Eminence in Technology and Economic Strength Act of 2022: The House passed the America Creating Opportunities for Manufacturing, Pre-Eminence in Technology and Economic Strength Act of 2022. The America COMPETES Act makes historic investments 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, bipartisan legislation from the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.

 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: More information is posted on the US House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology website.

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