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About Research with NJ

Research with NJ , a free online portal that showcases New Jersey’s experts in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Research with NJ, is an online database spearheaded by the  New Jersey Economic Development Authority  (NJEDA) and the State’s  Office of the Secretary of Higher Education , it provides local, national, and international commercial enterprises, ranging from entrepreneurs and start-ups to global corporations, with insight into groundbreaking research taking place within the state’s network of research universities. This includes information on subject matter experts, facilities, publications, intellectual property, news, and events that can help Research with NJ users forge partnerships and build innovative new businesses and products based on the latest scientific and technological breakthroughs.

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New Jersey is home to wealth of faculty researchers, equipment/instruments, laboratories. technologies and other resources available to businesses across the state and internationally. The ResearchwithNJ website connects you to those resources by consolidating information from multiple universities into a powerful centralized resource.

The ResearchwNJ portal allows users to search in several ways:

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A search for experts can be completed under the “Profiles” tab. This output provides basic information about an expert such as university/institutional affiliation with as well as visibility (also known as a “fingerprint”) in specific disciplines and sub-disciplines of their expertise.

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The universities have a number of “research units,” which refers to the separate divisions, departments, institutes, labs, centers, offices, and other functions. By clicking on a specific research unit, one is able to use the top header row hyperlinks to view all the expert profiles, publications, research fingerprints in the area, and press and media associated with that research unit.

SEARCH BY PUBLICATIONS

Publications are searched by keywords, phrases, concepts, free text, and various filters. Users can evaluate search results by reviewing the weights under each fingerprint associated with a particular research output. Thus, it is easy to assess the accuracy of search results by reviewing weights associated with each fingerprint. Each publication includes complete citations and information regarding which university and research unit the publication is associated with.

SEARCH BY UNIVERSITY PORTALS

All participating universities on ResearchwithNJ.com have their own portals, which can be found on the home page. Clicking on any one of these university portals will lead users to a university-specific version of this database.

SEARCH BY PRESS/MEDIA

The “Press/Media” link on the home page takes users to a variety of media citations for articles and/or links related to the participating universities.

SEARCH BY ACTIVITIES

Clicking on the “activities” link will bring you to a listing of events, conferences, or other materials associated with each research unit.

Lastly, the University/Industry Collaboration section  highlights potential partnerships that may lead to innovation. This allows for two unique ecosystems to solve challenges and capitalize on opportunities – from research partnerships, intellectual property and technology licensing, to business development and even student internships together.

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Investigating ploidy modulation as a strategy to improve antibiotic activity.

Brynildsen, M. P.

4/1/24 → 6/30/24

Princeton University

Project : Research project

Decoding the specificity of social drives

Falkner, A. L.

4/1/24 → 3/31/27

Approaching sensorimotor learning from another angle: Exploring and leveraging different cognitive strategies for improving motor performance

Taylor, J. A.

3/12/24 → 2/28/29

Metasurface-Integrated Open-Top Lattice Light Sheet Microscope for High-Throughput Bioimaging

3/11/24 → 2/28/27

Mechanics of Elastoactive Structures

NSF - National Science Foundation

3/1/24 → 2/28/27

CAREER: Data Structures and Streaming Algorithms

3/1/24 → 2/28/29

Tunable Tensegrity Structures and Metamaterials

Paulino, G. H.

Neuromodulators constrain the activity of neurons and neuronal networks by restricting their parameter space

Golowasch, J.

National Science Foundation

3/1/24 → 2/29/28

New Jersey Institute of Technology

Development of Novel Therapeutic Agents for the Treatment of Triple Negative Breast Cancer

Jonnalagadda, S.

New Jersey Health Foundation, Inc. (NJHF)

2/15/24 → 2/14/25

Rowan University

Project : Other project

New Physics in Artificial Spin Ice via Materials Innovation

Schiffer, P.

2/15/24 → 7/31/27

How Students Navigate Engineering with Non-Apparent Disabilities

Jamison, C.

Evaluating Efficacy of Injectable BMP-2 Peptide Hydrogels in Healing Non-Union Femur Fractures

Vega Fuentes, S.

Bolstering Community Stakeholders' Awareness, Self-Efficacy, and Outreach to Strengthen Partnerships with and Supports for Immigrant Families of Young Children (Birth - Age 5)

Edwards, N.

Analyzing and developing antiviral compounds from honey bee venom.

Krummenacher, C.

Revolutionizing Ocular Health: Smart pH-Sensitive Contact Lenses for Precision Drug Delivery on Demand

Joint computational-experimental discovery of novel hac6 inhibitors for treating triple-negative breast cancer (tnbc), career: transport phenomena and the uptake of foreign species during crystal growth.

Capellades Mendez, G.

National Science Foundation (NSF)

2/1/24 → 1/31/29

Optimization of Encapsulation Processes

2/1/24 → 1/31/25

Travel Support: A Short Course on The Polymer Physics of Additive Manufacturing

Davidson, E. C.

2/1/24 → 10/31/24

CAREER: Engineering Circular Hydrocarbon Reactions in Zeolite-based Catalysts

Sarazen, M. L.

Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal (mCDR) 2023: Developing a coupled benthic-pelagic biogeochemical model to evaluate the effectiveness of mCDR interventions. Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).

Fueglistaler, S. A.

U.S. DOC - Natl Oceanic & Atmos Admin

2/1/24 → 7/30/24

I-Corps: Advanced Security for Healthcare Systems

Art: enhancements at the new jersey institute of technology to transform translational impact.

Chester, S. , Ehrlich, M. , Bandera, C. & Dhawan, A.

2/1/24 → 1/31/28

PFI-TT: Commercial scale production of aligned polymer nanofiber materials and yarns

Beachley, V.

2/1/24 → 7/31/26

The psychological underpinnings of gender disparities in adolescent mental health

Olson, K. R.

2/1/24 → 1/31/27

Collaborative Research: III: Medium: New Machine Learning Empowered Nanoinformatics System for Advancing Nanomaterial Design

Tulane University

I-Corps: Networked Autonomous-humanoid Security Robot

Developing tcr-t cell therapy in renal cell carcinoma.

Chiou, S. S. & Hinrichs, C.

National Cancer Institute

1/18/24 → 11/30/24

Rutgers, The State University

NSF Convergence Accelerator Track M: Enabling novel photonic neuromorphic devices through bridging DNA-programmable assembly and nanofabrication

Shih, W. M., Zhang, F. , Gang, O., Yu, N. & Yu, Z.

1/15/24 → 12/31/24

Conference: Gordon Research Conference on Batteries-Ventura

Hatzell, K. B.

1/15/24 → 6/30/24

NSF Convergence Accelerator Track L: UAV-assisted dual-comb spectroscopic detection, localization, and quantification of multiple atmospheric trace-gas emissions

Wysocki, G.

NSF Convergence Accelerator Track M: Slime Mold Inspired Self-Assembling Conveyor System for Flood Response

Swissler, P. , Garnier, S. , Ergan, S., Porfiri, M. & Graham, J. M.

Non-Born-Oppenheimer Effects in the Framework of Multicomponent Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory

Hammes-Schiffer, S.

1/15/24 → 7/31/24

Plume Structure and Mantle Layering Beneath the South Pacific: Modeling Teleseismic Waveforms from Traditional and Floating Sensors

Simons, F. J.

1/15/24 → 12/31/26

The role of pyruvate kinase as a therapeutic target in T-ALL

Herranz Benito, D.

1/11/24 → 12/31/24

Vitamin A metabolism in the adult lung

Shmarakov, I.

1/1/24 → 12/31/24

Collaborative Research: NSFGEO/NERC: After the cataclysm: cryptic degassing and delayed recovery in the wake of Large Igneous Province volcanism

Black, B. , Neitzke-adamo, L. & Santiago Ramos, D.

1/1/24 → 12/31/28

Collaborative Research: CyberTraining: Implementation: Medium: Training Users, Developers, and Instructors at the Chemistry/Physics/Materials Science Interface

Pavanello, M.

1/1/24 → 12/31/27

Collaborative Research: Fusion of Siloed Data for Multistage Manufacturing Systems: Integrative Product Quality and Machine Health Management

1/1/24 → 12/31/26

CAREER: Precise Mathematical Modeling and Experimental Validation of Radiation Heat Transfer in Complex Porous Media Using Analytical Renewal Theory Abstraction-Regressions

Hajimirza, S.

Stevens Institute of Technology

NJ MAP Operational Support 2024

F. M. Kirby Foundation

CSR: Small: Cross-Layer Solutions Enabling Instant Computing for Edge Intelligence Devices

Roohi, A. & Angizi, S.

Metabolic Landscape and Mitochondrial ROS Balance in Brain Ischemia/Reperfusion

Galkin, A. A., Gross, S. S. S. & Ten, V.

Collaborative Research: EAGER: Designing Nanomaterials to Reveal the Mechanism of Single Nanoparticle Photoemission Intermittency

1/1/24 → 12/31/25

Hybrid Analytical and Data-Driven Models for Integrated Simulation and Design of Complex High Frequency Multi-Winding Magnetic Components

South jersey institute for population health cycle 3 research engagement.

Rowan-Rutgers Joint Board

REU Site: Social and Environmental Influences on Brain and Behavior

Delgado, M. & Lobue, V.

Learning Health System Scientist Training And Research in New Jersey (LHS STAR NJ)

Hudson, S. , Halm, E. A., Jimenez, M. , Panettieri, R. R. A. & Gerhard, T.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Elucidation of hypoxia-induced metastatic reprogramming through the regulation of KDM8 function in pancreatic cancer

Collaborative proposal: mechanics of optimal biomimetic torene plates and shells with ultra-high genus.

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Focus NJ is an independent research non-profit conducting timely, innovative, nonpartisan economic and workforce research to support sound public policy in New Jersey. Our research is aimed at helping create a New Jersey where individuals and businesses can thrive.

To ensure New Jersey is competitive and affordable, our work is centered on making New Jersey competitive and affordable. Through in-depth reports and our real-time economic tracking dashboard, Focus NJ tracks how the Garden State’s GDP, unemployment, income, and other indicators are affecting the state’s economy.

To best prepare for the workforce needs of the future, New Jersey must create, maintain and retain a highly educated population. Our work seeks to align K-12 and postsecondary education, expand experiential learning, achieve stackable credentials and degrees, and develop career-focused curricula.

In a rapidly-changing economy, business, government and academia must collaborate to provide career pathways and public-private partnerships that keep the jobs of the future at the forefront of conversation today. Focus NJ’s research and partnerships seek to strengthen the workforce development pipeline while connecting businesses, training providers, and workers.

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NJIT research enterprise provides undergraduate and graduate students an outstanding academic and research experience through various externally and internally funded research programs, centers of excellence and collaborative interdisciplinary initiatives.

These programs provide opportunities for students to learn necessary and important research skills and to innovate in order to take a leadership role in society.

Undergraduate Research Programs    

Undergraduate Research and Innovation (URI) programs give students a chance to flourish in various ways. Students learn how to do research, but also how to pick projects that will improve a societal problem and enhance the quality of life for a community of people.  These programs are designed to help students develop the vision to contend with global challenges. More information on the  URI website .  

Graduate Research Programs

Doctoral and Master’s graduate students are an integral part of NJIT research enterprise. Graduate students work at faculty research laboratories and centers through 19 doctoral and 56 Master’s degree programs. NJIT faculty grants and contracts directly fund graduate students providing outstanding opportunities for basic, applied and translational research and technology development. 

Students may contact Principal Investigators and Directors of research centers and laboratories for exploring the availability of research opportunities in specific areas. Please see  Centers and Laboratories website  for additional information on research opportunities.

High School STEM Research Programs

NJIT offers excellent opportunities for professional and career development in STEM areas to undergraduate, as well high school students, through Provost Summer Research and faculty-centered grants and research centers. NJIT is committed to providing opportunities for hands-on research participation for high school students under the guidance of a faculty advisor with close mentoring through NJIT undergraduate and graduate students.   

The high school summer research internship program requires a commitment of 6 weeks from June 24th, 2024 to August 1st, 2024 . The highly competitive program is designed to inspire the students to appreciate the value of discovery and innovation with the ultimate objective of encouraging them to pursue a career in science and lifelong learning. Acepted students are paired with a faculty member and their reserach team consisting of undergraduate students, graduate students and post docs.  At the end of their internships, students will  present an electronic poster at the annual Summer Research Symposium describing their project and outcomes to faculty and their peers.  Our faculty members are involved in the following five areas of research.  You will be asked for your first and second  preferences on the application.

• Bioscience & Bioengineering
• ​Data Science & Management
• Environment & Sustainability
• Material Science & Engineering
• Robotics & Machine Intelligence

We are no longer accepting applications for the 2024 High School Summer Research Internship Program.

Please review the 2024 HSSRI Guidelines found here for eligibility, required documents and important dates. Please note, there is a $500 fee if accepted.  Permission forms will also be required if accepted.  Payment and forms will be due by May 1, 2024. Need based waivers are available to all who qualify, please contact us at [email protected] if you require financial assistance. 

Eligibility:

● Applicants must be completing 10th or 11th grade in June 2024. Graduating high school seniors are not eligible. ● Applicants should have an unweighted GPA of 3.75 or better, and show a demonstrated interest in science. ● Students must be New Jersey high school students and residents of New Jersey. ● Students must be able to commute to NJIT daily (at their own expense) for the duration of the program. ● A parent or legal guardian must grant permission for the student to participate in the program

Students who do not meet the criteria above will not be considered.

Please email [email protected] with questions . 

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For more information about NJIT's extracurricular STEM programs for students in grades 4 -12, please visit our Center for Pre-College Programs .

Note: The Center for Pre-College Programs does not oversee the Summer Provost High School Internship Program nor will they be able to provide program or application materials.  

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“I work on nanobubbles. My target is to help develop simple, cheap, eco-friendly and safe technologies for all parts of the world.”

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Kean named New Jersey's first urban research university, gains access to federal money

Kean University in Union Township has been designated the state's first urban research university, making it eligible for additional federal and state research funding.

The new status "positions the university as a statewide leader in research and policy for our underserved cities and urban communities," Kean President Lamont O. Repollet said in a statement Friday.

"It will change the course of this institution and provide new opportunities for the students we serve," Repollet said. "As the state’s only urban research university, we can also make a real difference in the lives of New Jerseyans living in urban communities as we help urban centers build stronger futures.”

The designation, codified in a bill signed by Gov. Phil Murphy, increases state Tuition Assistance Grant awards for Kean students and provides additional distinction for any faculty or student applications for federal or state research grants, a university spokesperson said.

The university opened an Urban Policy and Research Institute in the spring, which researches issues affecting the state’s urban centers and develops solutions to address them.

The university said that highly competitive federal research grants have more than tripled at Kean since 2017. The new status will make it eligible for even more research funding. 

The 166-year old institution serving the cities of Newark and Elizabeth has campuses in New Jersey and in Wenzhou, China. More than 61% of its students are people of color, and the federal government recognizes Kean as a Hispanic-serving institution. Half its students receive Pell grants — an indicator of financial need — and are the first in their families to attend a higher education institution, according to the government.

Public research universities receive federal and state funding to generate research and scholarship that drives innovation for the public good. Public universities received a little more than half of their research funding from federal sources, (51% in 2016) and a lesser amount from state sources (8% in 2016) according to the National Science Foundation.

“With this designation, Kean’s world-class programs and research can stretch even farther beyond the borders of our campus, into cities and urban communities in need of the insight and targeted attention that we can provide,” said Kellie LeDet, chief government affairs officer at Kean.

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The legislation also authorized the creation of the New Jersey Civic Information Consortium — an association among Kean, Rutgers University, Montclair State University, the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rowan University. The initiative will be funded by the state to "advance research and innovation in the field of media and technology" to meet New Jersey's evolving information needs. The legislation did not specify how much the state will spend on the initiative.

The state legislature votes to determine which universities become research institutions. Kean joins Rutgers, NJIT, Rowan and Montclair State as a state-designated public research university. 

New education bills

Murphy also signed a bill Monday that establishes a commission to examine how universities and their host municipalitiescan work together to increase engagement with the local community. 

Another law creates a new category of state school aid called "military impact aid" to benefit children whose parents are on active duty in the uniformed services and who live in school districts that include federally owned land not taxed by the state. The state will spend between $6 million and $8 million in financial assistance to benefit these children.

Online courses offered by colleges will now be subject to oversight from a task force appointed by the governor's office. Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, the law will create a task force to evaluate quality, costs and educational outcomes of online courses offered by universities in New Jersey.

On Monday, the Senate Education Committee also approved certain bills that will now be voted on the floor. 

Two bills would require changes in K-12 curricula. S3464 will require age-appropriate instruction on information literacy to help students understand how to do research and use critical thinking to evaluate information available on the internet and in other media. S4021 will require school social studies curricula to include history and contributions of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Murphy said in a statement this week that this is the state's "fastest growing" demographic.

Other bills would require that a high school student representative be added to boards of education, require all websites associated with school districts to be accessible to persons with disabilities, and allow teachers to certify using alternative methods in place of basic skills testing. 

Mary Ann Koruth covers education for NorthJersey.com. To get unlimited access to the latest news about New Jersey's schools and how it affects your children, please subscribe or activate your digital account today.

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NJ steers $3.7M toward studies of offshore wind's environmental impacts

TRENTON — New Jersey officials pledged $3.7 million for scientific research and monitoring of the environmental impacts of offshore wind energy off the Jersey Shore.

Support for offshore wind remains politically polarized. Critics argue that construction and operation of ocean wind turbines would harm marine animals and outweigh environmental benefits.

Advocates counter that inaction on reducing greenhouse gas emissions will lead to more harm to the ocean environment due to warming water temperatures and ocean acidification.

The new award, announced Monday by New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Shawn LaTourette and New Jersey Board of Public Utilities President Christine Guhl-Sadovy, will fund the state's Offshore Wind Research and Monitoring Initiative .

The initiative supports projects that will document the distribution of whales, dolphins and seals and the turbines' impact on the animals; study fish and crustaceans off the Jersey Shore; and study the populations and impacts on endangered shorebirds, such as the red knot, piping plover and roseate tern.

Critics have called for a slowdown or halt to offshore wind projects. During a public hearing last week before the Board of Public Utilities, an attorney for the Long Branch-based environmental organization Clean Ocean Action urged the board to stop approving offshore wind project s until more extensive scientific research on their impacts was available.

Save Long Beach Island Inc., another critic, sued federal agencies over the offshore wind approvals. The organization says the projects off New Jersey pose a threat to the endangered North Atlantic right whale as well as other marine animals.

According to the National Marine Fisheries Service, whales face serious threats from ship strikes, entanglement with fishing gear and climate change. Agency officials have said that no evidence suggests whales have been harmed from offshore wind work.

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New Jersey's Research and Monitoring Initiative will continue to fund studies on offshore wind's environment impacts through each project's construction, operation and eventual decommissioning. Some of the other research that will be funded with the money are:

• Rutgers University will receive $97,462 to study how the turbine bases affect the "cold pool," a cold bottom layer of ocean that influences thermal layers within the Atlantic Ocean.
• The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Fisheries will receive $47,383 to conduct aerial surveys of whales, particularly the North Atlantic right whale.
• Rutgers University will receive $929,593 to tag and study humpback and fin whales in and around the offshore wind lease areas.
• Various agencies will divide $1.3 million to track bird and bat migrations off the New Jersey coast.
• The Coonamessett Farm Foundation will receive $1 million to study various species of sea turtles that migrate off the Jersey Shore.

"As we continue to pursue a 100% clean energy economy by 2035, it's imperative that we not only protect the interests of our ratepayers but safeguard the vitality of our marine ecosystems as well," Guhl-Sadovy, president of the Board of Public Utilities, said Monday in a news release. "The Research Monitoring Initiative is a crucial piece of our comprehensive efforts to responsibly develop New Jersey’s nation-leading offshore wind industry."

Since its creation in 2021, the Research and Monitoring Initiative has received $13 million in funding, according to state officials.

Amanda Oglesby is an Ocean County native who covers education and the environment. She has worked for the Press for more than 15 years. Reach her at @OglesbyAPP, [email protected] or 732-557-5701.

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June 28, 2023 6:24 am.

Lawmakers are considering a bill that would immediately pump $90 million more into scientific research and training at state colleges and universities. (Dana DiFilippo | New Jersey Monitor)

By Drs. Melissa B. Rogers, Kim McKim and Martha Soto

The New Jersey Legislature is on the cusp of approving landmark reforms that should immediately pump $90 million more into scientific research and training at state colleges and universities and potentially hundreds of millions more in future years.

Our state has long been a leader in pharmaceutical and health care research. Critical advancements in the fight against diseases including cancer, addiction, and infectious diseases like COVID-19 were developed right here in New Jersey.

The backbone of this entire industry is the basic and clinical science research conducted at labs in public universities like Rutgers, the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Montclair State and others.

Numerous pharmaceutical companies have located thousands of good-paying jobs to our state precisely because our university researchers lead the way in new advancements that are transforming medicine.

But an antiquated state formula that diverts up to $90 million a year out of our labs threatens our position as the premier state for biomedical research.

Higher education research is largely funded through competitive grants awarded by federal and private agencies for basic and translational projects and pharmaceutical companies running clinical trials in collaboration with clinical scientists.  These grants pay for the salaries of professors, trainees, and staff carrying out the research.

A portion of each grant awarded to our state laboratories is allocated to “fringe costs” that pay retirement plan and health insurance benefits on top of the salaries for research personnel.

Typical fringe benefit rates at peer institutions in other states are between 30% to 40% of annual salary.  In contrast, the fringe rate for New Jersey researchers has risen dramatically, and will exceed 68% this coming fiscal year.  In other words, twice that of our competitors.

Winning research grants from the federal government has never been easy, but federal funding is more competitive than ever.  Further, the maximum size of a federal grant has stagnated for decades.  Our proximity to major pharmaceutical companies has facilitated bed-to-bedside collaborations.  However, the excessive fringe rate is eating away at New Jersey’s dominance in translational research.  The competitive disadvantage means that research collaborators on federal grants and major pharmaceutical companies will be diverted to top-tier universities with more favorable fringe rates in New York, Pennsylvania, and beyond.

Adding insult to injury, New Jersey’s fringe rate far exceeds the true cost of researcher retirement.  The core of the problem is that the existing, outdated state fringe rate formula assumes that most academic researchers receive pension benefits from the main state pension plan. In reality, researchers are enrolled in the alternate benefit plan, a much less expensive defined-contribution plan where employee payments are matched by employer contributions.

This means that tens of millions of federal research dollars flowing into New Jersey are being used to support a pension system that state researchers will never receive.

This is not only unethical. It is also bad for research and bad for New Jersey’s economy.

The fix is simple. Legislation sponsored by Assemblyman Dan Benson (D-Mercer) and state Senator Andrew Zwicker (D-Middlesex) would direct the state to calculate an accurate fringe rate for higher education employees ( S2747/A4164 ).

Already, other classes of public sector employees from judges to public safety personnel are assessed more accurate fringe rates.  A similar change for higher education employees is long overdue  at our public research universities.

This change would cause an immediate boost of 10% or more in total research funding.  The cost of employing a typical single research technician at our labs would drop overnight by between $20,000 and $30,000 a year.  Researchers would be better able to invest in and retain the human talent and expertise at the heart of scientific innovation.

The Benson and Zwicker bills have already been unanimously approved, on a bipartisan basis, through committee.

As lawmakers finalize a state budget, addressing this problem once and for all is essential.

Drs. Melissa B. Rogers (New Jersey Medical School), Kim McKim (Waksman Institute of Microbiology) and Martha Soto (Robert Wood Johnson Medical School) are professors at Rutgers University, each with decades of research experience.

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