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NJIT: Catalyst for Prosperity Rowan University: Engineering, Science, Business Rutgers: Pipeline of Innovation Stevens Institute of Technology: Ideas into Real-World Products UMDNJ: Bringing Science to Market Princeton University: Engaging in Partnerships inside New Jersey: A Home for Growth by Lt. Governor Kim Guadagno

hat does the our diverse resource base and utilizing our a n t i - c a n c e r reputation for innovation. The final piece drug Interferon, is the New Jersey Economic Development t h e w o r l d ’s Authority (EDA) as the state’s financing arm. f i r s t t e s t f o r The EDA will continue its role overseeing Hepatitis C and the various programs and incentives aimed at Band-aid sterile business retention and attraction. bandages have Our aggressive efforts to attract businesses in common? They were all discovered in New are already working, with major companies WJersey. Along with the weather satellite and choosing to relocate to the Garden State. FM radio, New Jersey’s rich history of scientific Watson Pharmaceuticals will expand into new research and discovery has had a profound administrative headquarters in Parsippany impact on our state, our nation and throughout that will ultimately house approximately 500 the world. employees. The expansion was supported by Today, we are home to innovative, world- the state’s Business Employment Incentive class companies like Johnson & Johnson, Program (BEIP), a powerful initiative that Verizon, Celgene and Sanofi-Aventis; top- provides incentive grants to businesses based notch research universities like Rutgers on the number of new jobs they have created University, NJIT, Princeton and UMDNJ; in New Jersey. While most businesses must supportive trade organizations like the create at least 25 jobs within a 2-year period HealthCare Institute of New Jersey, BioNJ to qualify, emerging high technology and and the New Jersey Technology Council; a biotechnology companies have to create just superior incubator network; and, an active and 10 new jobs. supportive state government, led by Governor In addition to large businesses, New Chris Christie. Jersey’s extensive incubator network has Our Administration came into office with a ensured the cultivation of promising young promise to renew our economy and change the companies. In fact, the National Business of the Technology Centre of New Jersey in culture of government towards fostering new Incubation Association (NBIA) recently North Brunswick, is one of only 16 incubation technology and innovation. One of our first announced that they were formalizing their programs in the world that have earned efforts in this endeavor was the launch of the first affiliate relationship in the country with the Soft Landings International Incubator New Jersey Partnership for Action, a public- the New Jersey Business Incubation Network. designation from NBIA. The designation private partnership focused on promoting the This partnership will serve as a national model recognizes an incubator’s focus on welcoming retention and attraction of businesses. for the integration of global best practices in non-domestic firms into its domestic market. The first part of the Partnership is the entrepreneurship, business incubation, access To further bolster our incubator network, the Business Action Center (BAC), a team of global to capital, and job creation. One new addition EDA recently added 38,000 square feet of wet and domestic business advocates that will to NJBIN is CGC Genetics, a Portugal-based laboratory space on the Technology Centre assist in permitting and regulatory efficiency, medical genetics testing laboratory that opened campus to make “graduate” incubator space in addition to bringing a customer service its U.S. headquarters at NJIT’s Enterprise more readily available to thriving companies. approach to coordination and navigation Development Center in Newark this April. As we continue our efforts to make New across state and local government agencies for The state’s International Trade Team, NJIT Jersey a home for growth, the Governor and businesses looking to remain, expand or locate and the City of Newark were instrumental in I remain steadfast in our pledge to reduce in New Jersey. Another component will be helping this company locate in New Jersey, and taxes and eliminate the red tape that stifles Choose New Jersey, a privately funded, not-for- a BEIP grant will support the creation of 15 economic development. With our commitment profit corporation that will help position New new, high-paying technology jobs in the state. to pro-growth, pro-business initiatives and Jersey as a world-class leader in the competitive The EDA’s Commercialization Center a particular focus on growing New Jersey’s global marketplace by effectively leveraging for Innovative Technologies, which is part innovation economy, the future is promising. n

2 New Jersey Discovery The Motherland of Invention By Harry Roman and Bari Siegel

ake a moment to think about the world around you. Look in your medicine cabinets. Make note of all the gadgets plugged in and charging. Listen to the voices coming from your television or music wafting through the air…. Now, take a moment to thank New Jersey inventors. WithoutT this innovative lot—always searching for the next great thing…the solution to every challenge, real and predicted – there is no doubt you would be doing all your thinking in the dark. continued on page 4

New Jersey Discovery 3 New Jersey is surely one of the smallest telegraphy, improved telephony, stock tickers, states in the country—in size. But when it and many other devices including early comes to research and development, the office automation products like duplicating Garden State is the Motherland of Invention. machines and dictation recorders. Did you know that (according to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office) New Jersey Inventor’s Lane ranks third out of 50 in total U.S. patents Every time you walk into a store to buy issued? Since 1963, New Jersey inventors something, you are probably looking at have been awarded over 156,813 patents! products or services invented, created or Many of the things we see and use every day produced by New Jersey inventors. New Jersey come from New Jersey inventors past and may be called the Medicine Chest of the present, male and female. World. And, indeed, with more than a dozen New Jersey inventors represent a microcosm of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies of the national invention scene. New Jersey is headquartered here, the name is apt. home to many of corporate America’s finest research laboratories. In fact, it is the place You don’t have to look further than your neighborhood where Thomas Edison created the first research store to find some things first dreamed of in New Jersey: laboratory in Menlo Park, followed later by his When you pick up that soap to get those nasty oily stains out of legendary West Orange Labs, where corporate your synthetic clothes, you can thank Sue Wilson, a retired Colgate- R&D and manufacturing were joined-at-the- Palmolive project manager. Her research and hard work resulted in hip under one roof. Arguably, his laboratories such products as Dynamo, Punch and other popular detergents. may have been his most significant invention. As you stand in a checkout line, think about N. Joseph Woodland and Through them, Edison showed us how to his work with bar codes and bar code readers. When the clerk scans the organize our thinking and creativity so that products you have selected, know that C. Harry Knowles made that we could profit from our innovative ideas. process quick and efficient with laser bar code scanners and readers. By codifying the process of invention, the You know those tags on clothing that set off door alarms great inventor literally gave us the keys to preventing folks from walking out of the store without paying? perpetuating the industrial revolution of that Philip Anderson of Ramapo College invented those little time, yielding copious benefits down to us plastic watchdogs. today, with seemingly no end in sight. There is a fundamental link between the state’s robust Head to a hospital and it won’t take long economy and its inventive spirit and output. for you to learn that many lifesaving Thomas Edison was the most prolific and technologies have been developed broad-based inventor of all time. He earned in New Jersey: 1,093 patents, spread across a wide variety of Doctors inventive categories. Edison created products recommend and whole industries that persist to today. that before As the man responsible for the invention of the motion picture, recorded sound, power generation and the light bulb, and the creation of the first extensive R&D facility, he has arguably created more value than any other single human in history. It has been said that Edison is responsible for anywhere from three to five percent of the world’s GNP, over $500 billion for the U.S. alone. Two scientific discoveries in his laboratories later led directly to radio (the Etheric Force) and modern electronics (Edison Effect), paving the way for today’s telecommunications boom. His work also extended to other areas like fluoroscopy, mining, improved cement kilns, chemical production, all-cement structures, advanced

4 bandaging that cut on your finger, very active in cathode ray tubes, magic eye you dab on antibiotic cream to tuners, and a host of TV improvements. guard against infection. For that Then, in 1947, the Bell Labs team of protection, you can thank Selman John Bardeen, Walter Brittain and William Waksman and Hubert Lechevalier of Shockley brought it all to life! They Rutgers University. invented the transistor, which ushered in Gilbert Buchalter invented a reliable a tremendous miniaturization of circuitry, gel that connects electrodes to the body for leading to today’s computers and integrated electrocardiographs, and cardiac defibrillators. circuits. Much of today’s integrated circuit High blood pressure is a serious disorder designs lead back to Andrew Dingwall and that can be treated with relatively inexpensive his 100+ patents in CMOS integrated circuit drugs invented by George de Stevens. technology. Cable television? We can thank Arthur Nobile gave aging baby Isaac Blonder and Ben Tongue for developing boomers anti-arthritis drugs. Sidney much of the electronics and systems for this Pestka is recognized for his early work telecommunication medium. with the anti-cancer drug, Interferon. Music and sound recording are closely Dominic Witkor may be responsible allied with radio and TV. When we talk for one of your relatives, or perhaps even about the sound of modern music, we must you, being alive. He invented the Witkor- recognize Les Paul, the man responsible for Stent used to reconstruct damaged our modern musical sound. A pioneer in coronary arteries. the design of the electric guitar and early Sure, there was a time when being tape recorders, Les also gave us multiple “electronically connected” meant, literally, sound tracks and sound mixers that allow being connected by wire to a phone jack. for the making of custom music recordings. We’ve all read those lists of things that Jim Flanagan of Bell Labs gave us the basis today’s 18 year olds will never understand: for acoustic signal processing and modern phones with dials, for example. speech synthesis. Jim made it possible for Look at it another way. Ask a teenager if throat cancer victims with larynx damage they can imagine life without the Internet, to once again speak by using a handheld iPods, smart phones. Write a letter and mail synthesizer pressed against their throats. it? Puhleez! Today’s Digital Natives were born New Jersey is often called the Garden with Bluetooth headsets paired and ready to State because of its strong connection to transmit first words! All that is possible thanks agriculture, open fields and delicious Jersey to New Jersey inventors. tomatoes and corn. Others have called New Ready for the Internet SuperHighway? Use high Jersey the “Innovation State” because it is speed DSL and you can thank Irwin Gerszeberg, quite clear that the theory of research and called “Mr. DSL” by his AT&T friends. development must have been invented here. Pick up your cell phone and make a clear, But perhaps the “Invention State” is most interference free call and thank Eric Addeo for his appropriate. New Jersey’s legacy and list of work at Bell Communications Research. “firsts” is long and ever growing. Most that Those high capacity lithium batteries that allow has been invented was first conceived in the you to talk on your cell phone for hours—give a nod to halls of New Jersey’s schools and laboratories Antoni Gozdz, Jean-Marie Tarascon, and Paul Warren of of New Jersey’s research facilities. Telecordia for their pioneering work. In New Jersey, tomorrow is not just another When speaking on today’s phone, Jim West and Gerhard day. It’s another day of invention. n Sessler of AT&T Bell Labs and their foil-electret transducer make it possible for you to clearly hear and transmit your voice. Can you imagine a world without television? It all started with radio. Lee de Forest kicked off the electronic revolution with his invention of the triode audion tube that A considerable portion of this article was penned by makes practical amplification possible, and set us on a path Harry Roman, a retired PSE&G engineer and New to transistors. This all stemmed directly, believe it or not, Jersey inventor. President Emeritus of the New Jersey from Thomas Edison’s work in New Jersey with light bulbs. Inventors Hall of Fame (NJIHoF), Roman was honored Harold B. DuMont, a pioneering TV manufacturer, was also by the NJIHoF as Inventor of the Year 2005.

New Jersey Discovery 5 NJIT: New Jersey’s Catalyst For Prosperity

s New Jersey’s science and have the foundation to produce disruptive Sebastian said NJIT is strongly focused on technology university, technologies,” he said. “Our future is not applied research, often in partnership with New Jersey Institute of defined by the abundance of natural resources local companies, to develop new knowledge Technology has a long nor by the availability of a skilled workforce. and applications that improve industrial tradition of elevating Prosperity comes from solutions that use new processes and products. He said the goals are economic development understanding and new technology to shed both a thriving economy for New Jersey and to a fundamental part the limits imposed by the current way of doing an enhanced quality of life for its citizens, as of its mission. And things, and produce new business concepts demonstrated by the university’s growing life Aeconomic development, according to Donald that are faster, cheaper and better. Universities sciences research efforts. H. Sebastian, senior vice president for research have an opportunity to assume new roles that and development, means innovation rooted in facilitate engaging the private and public Applied Life Sciences science, engineering and computing. sectors to work toward the common goal of NJIT’s Biomedical Engineering department, “When creativity, practical experience and reasserting our region as a leading producer in founded in 2002, has led the way in establishing scientific understanding operate together, you a global economy.” a program of life sciences research:

Associate Professor Treena Livingston Arinzeh with members of the stem cell research team, Yee-Shun Lee and Norbert Weber. EDC: Nurturing New Businesses

When NJIT alumnus Al Limaye decided to expand his business, he knew it was time to relocate to NJIT’s Enterprise Development Center (EDC). His company, AC Birox, manufactures a unique portable detector for biological and chemical warfare agents, explosives and narcotics. Limaye could see potential applications Treena Livingston Arinzeh won a prestigious complex clinical databases, thereby reducing in pharmaceutical manufacturing, Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists healthcare costs. biomedical research, and for detecting and Engineers for her work to create therapies Gordon Thomas, physics, has developed a and differentiating among pathogens in from stem cells for repairing and regrowing new tonometer that enables thru-the-eyelid the hospital emergency room. But in order bone tissue. measurement of intro-ocular pressure to to enhance the detector’s capabilities for Richard Foulds, director of the Rehabilitation diagnose glaucoma, and a “smart shunt” for industrial and medical application, he would Engineering Research Center, is developing hydrocephalus and brain injury patients. need the edge that EDC could give him. technologies to help children with orthopedic “I knew about the EDC as an NJIT disabilities through therapeutic video games. Information Technology and graduate,” Limaye says. “I also knew Sergei Adamovich has developed a Wireless Telecommunications that there would be many advantages in virtual reality-based training program for One of the nation’s most computing intense moving there. Some are those needed by rehabilitation of stroke victims. campuses, NJIT also has a major research any new business, including affordable Bryan J. Pfister studies rapid axon stretch focus in information technology: office and lab space, and being able to growth, a technique for regenerating Yeheskel Bar-Ness and Alex Haimovich, network with interested investors. But there damaged or diseased nerve cells. He hopes electrical and computer engineering, lead are also the resources that you’ll find only to develop a nerve-tissue interface for a a team of researchers working to develop at a research university such as NJIT.” thought-controlled prosthesis that would the infrastructure needed to support the Expert faculty advisors, skilled student behave like a natural limb. burgeoning demand for wireless services. workers, and access to sophisticated facilities Mesut Sahin received grant support from The group addresses issues such as privacy and equipment are among the pluses, he the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute and security, interference and jamming, ever said. Limaye is now coordinating NJIT faculty of Child Health and Human Development to heavier user traffic, and rapid transmission of and students in enhancing his detector’s develop technologies for interfacing with the data through wireless networks. capacity for fast and accurate verification central nervous system to learn more about Leonid Tsybeskov, electrical and computer of pathogens such as E. coli and staph its natural function and to develop treatments engineering, works with nanotechnology to bacteria, mold, and even the H1N1 flu virus. for neurological disorders. The interface will increase computer-processing speed. He Opened in 1988, EDC is the state’s oldest assist patients with spinal cord injuries in received two NSF grants and support from and largest incubator for technology-based gaining mobility. Intel for his work with three-dimensional and life-science companies. Participation Tara Alvarez studies the learning strategies silicon-germanium nanostructures. is open to early-stage companies that used by the brain to control eye movement to Nirwan Ansari, electrical and computer have a proprietary technology as a gain insight into the general problem of motor engineering, is collaborating with experts in significant source of revenue. learning. She is working to develop special Japan on security in next-generation networks. EDC provides office and lab space, techniques and equipment to diagnose and They are looking at security not only in fixed financial assistance, business and technical treat traumatic brain injury. and cellular networks, but in sensor networks services, and the shared business acumen of But beyond biomedical engineering, life and satellite networks. the Center’s management staff. The center sciences research has become ubiquitous at Cristian Borcea, computer science, has graduated more than 85 successful NJIT. Examples include: studies mobile and ubiquitous computing. businesses. Nearly 95 companies now at Timothy Chang, electrical and computer His projects have focused on large-scale the EDC employ over 300 people full-time, engineering, developed a low transient pulse mobile networks with applications for social along with some 100 student interns. (LTP) technique for ultrasound that provides networking, and inter-vehicle networking “The mission of the EDC is to provide better resolution medical imaging. with smart vehicles exchanging data for the best possible environment that allows Jason Wang, computer science, is safe driving, traffic condition monitoring, early stage startup companies to grow creating a search engine to simplify— emergency message dissemination, and and accelerate commercialization of their by analysis and classification—huge dynamic route planning over hybrid technologies,” says Judith Sheft, NJIT associate vice president for technology development. . amounts of biological data. Wang’s team wireless networks. “Part of the interface role that NJIT’s Office is developing and testing a search tool Michael Chumer, information systems, of Research and Development plays is to for processing queries about information studies preparedness and emergency response facilitate connections with the rich set of patterns in large databases. management information systems, specifically, resources available. We help companies Yehoshua Perl, computer science, works identifying and integrating the design navigate what can at times can be a daunting to simplify and refine medical terms used in components specifically command and control path, often by opening doors and making patient records, decision-support systems and into a cohesive and useable technology. healthcare administrative systems. The goal is introductions to begin what, hopefully, to eliminate errors and redundancies in large, continued on page 8 will be very fruitful conversations.” n

New Jersey Discovery 7 Materials and Newark. They found that BRT, with its Materials Process Engineering inherent economy, efficiency and speed of Novel materials, particularly at the micro- deployment, is especially suited to Newark and nanoscale level, are another important not only because the City’s urban pattern research focus at NJIT. evolved around the streetcar network of the Aiding The research of Reginald Farrow, physics, last century, but also that Newark’s residents North Jersey lies at the interface between nanotechnology already use buses extensively. Sollohub also Entrepreneurs and biotechnology, and may lead to ways of offered a studio that challenged students listening (and talking) to individual cells. It to work on designs for a new generation of may also lead to power sources that use blood The New Jersey Center for Innovation Habitat for Humanity townhouses. One of his sugar as fuel and are so small that they can students, Alex Merlucci, won the competition Acceleration at NJIT is designed to help power nano-computers that could circulate with a modern, cost-effective design with innovators and entrepreneurs access the through the body in the blood and provide customizable exterior and interior elements. resources of New Jersey’s science and medical diagnostics as they pass througyh Ala Saadeghvaziri researches structural and technology university and its Enterprise critical organs. Development Center (EDC), the state’s Rajesh Dave, chemical engineering, is lead earthquake engineering. His team developed oldest and largest high tech business investigator in the NSF-supported Engineering an improved design for concrete bridges that incubator. Connecting start-up businesses Research Center for Structured Organic will lessen stresses as the concrete shrinks and in the science and technology industries Compounds, investigating techniques for mixing eliminate cracking on the decks of the bridges. with capital, academic resources, support nanocomposites to improve the performance of Richard Garber, and student Brian Novello organizations, professional service providers, drugs, biomaterials and catalysts. designed a network of modular floating docks volunteers, workforce talent, business Zafar Iqbal, chemistry, applies the principles to harness clean energy for New York City. partners and knowledge, the Center outfits and materials of nanotechnology to a novel These docking stations would plug into entrepreneurs to create successful, sustainable biofuel cell that converts the body’s own conventional piers in New York City with businesses and thriving industry clusters. glucose to power devices like pacemakers and “Helping ventures accelerate growth vertical turbines fastened to their underside glucose biosensors for diabetics. The device in achieving time-to-market and time-to- to harness river currents to generate clean uses highly conductive nanomaterials to guide profitability milestones will be a hallmark of energy while increasing public green space the electrons. Iqbal and Somenath Mitra, the Center,” says Judith Sheft, associate vice and tidal pools for wildlife. Garber, Nicole also chemistry, have developed proprietary president of technology development and Robertson, and colleagues at their firm GRO techniques for producing, purifying and director of the center. She emphasizes that the Architects also recently completed a residence changing the chemical characteristics of carbon Center leverages the successful EDC programs in Jersey City, a prototype for an energy nanotubes for a wide variety of applications. and facilities along with other university and efficient, pre-fabricated housing alternative for Kamalesh K. Sirkar, chemical engineering, local resources to support nascent and early urban neighborhoods 21st century solution is develops membrane separation technologies stage entrepreneurs. The new NJIT Student for urban housing. Innovation Acceleration Club, which seeks for water desalination, protein purification, removing carbon dioxide and other gases from Ken Chin, physics, has a grant from the to assist students in their new business Chinese firm, Apollo Solar Energy, Inc., to endeavors, has adopted the Center as its air, and the removal of toxins from water. establish a solar research center for improving home base. Student innovators also have John Federici, physics, uses terahertz the applications of Cadmium telluride access to the Capital One Entrepreneurial (THz) electromagnetic radiation to detect Learning Lab at the EDC where they learn and identify explosives and biological agents. semiconductor materials for use in thin-film to make their business plans a reality. A terahertz imaging system could be used in solar cells, reducing the cost per watt of solar The Center also serves as a clearinghouse airports to detect potentially harmful materials power and making it a viable alternative to for ideas for entrepreneurs from throughout even if they are concealed in clothing, sealed fossil fuels. New Jersey. Earlier this year the center packages, or suitcases. co-sponsored presentations by noted Michael Jaffe, biomedical engineering, Management Research authors Clayton Christensen who wrote, collaborates with the Iowa Corn Promotion Michael Ehrlich, assistant professor of The Innovator’s Dilemma and Chester Elton, Board (ICPB), and University of Sao Paulo management, focuses on financial markets to find polymer applications for corn sugar author of The 24 Carrot Manager. Another key and institutions, with an emphasis on market derivatives. His team developed a corn-based goal is to intensify connections between the failures. His current interest has been the epoxy, which can be used as an adhesive, academic and entrepreneurial communities. unintended consequences of financial market paint, or a coating to protect food in cans. For the many years, professors from the innovation with special attention to structured NJIT School of Management have been Edgardo Farinas, chemistry, has an NSF investment vehicles working with EDC companies, sponsoring CAREER grant supporting his work in the William V. Rapp, Henry J. Leir Professor of both experiential learning courses with development of methodologies and “rules” for International Trade and Business, researches incubator firms and programs for EDC-based enzyme design, and the application of these entrepreneurs such as a venture acceleration methods to create novel and practical biocatalysts. international business, strategy, and financial workshop. Through the Center for Innovation institutions, especially using technology to Acceleration, these services are now available Sustainable Systems gain competitive advantage. to start up companies throughout NJ. n and Infrastructure Katia Passerini, Hurlburt Professor of Architecture students Robert Pietrocola Management of Information Systems, For more information, please contact Michael and Joseph DiNapoli worked with Darius researches computer-supported learning, Ehrlich ([email protected]) or Judith Sollohub, architecture, to study the feasibility knowledge management and mobile Sheft ([email protected]). of bus rapid transit (BRT) in the city of communications services evolution. n

8 New Jersey Discovery RESEARCH CENTERS OUTREACH CENTERS Applied Biomaterials and Tissue Space Weather Research Center for Information Materials Characterization Engineering Laboratory Laboratory Age Technology Laboratory Treena Livingston-Arinzeh, Director Haimin Wang, PhD, Director Mitchell Darer, MBA, Director Larisa G. Krishtopa, PhD, Director 973 596-5269 (973) 596-5781 (973) 477-3179 (973) 596-5883 http://web.njit.edu/~arinzeh/ www.spaceweather.com/ ciat.njit.edu www.ycess.njit.edu/labs

Center for Applied Engineering Research Center Defense Procurement Mathematics and Statistics for Structured Organic Technical Assistance Center Daljit S. Ahluwalia, PhD, Director Particulate Systems (C-SOPS) Dolcey E. Chaplin, JD, Director (973) 596-5782 Raj N. Dave, PhD, Associate Director (973) 596-3105 math.njit.edu/research/ 973-596-5860 www.njit.edu/dptac EDUCATIONAL http://ercforsops.org RESOURCES Center for Building Knowledge Enterprise Development Center Continuing Professional Education Deane M. Evans, MArch, Medical Device Concept Lab Jerry Creighton Sr., Executive Director Gale Tenen Spak, PhD, Executive Director Michael Jaffe, PhD, Director (973) 643-4063 Associate Vice President, Continuing (973) 596-3097 973-353-1462 www.njit-edc.org and Distance Learning www.njit.edu/Directory/Centers/CABSR www.njbiomaterials.org/web/index. (973) 596-8540 Innovation Acceleration Center cpe.njit.edu Center for Communications and Microelectronics Michael Ehrlich, PhD, co-Director Signal Processing Research Fabrication Center Judith Sheft , co-Director Collaborative Doctorate Program Yeheskel Bar-Ness, PhD, Executive Dentcho Ivanov, PhD, Director 973-596-5825. Ronald Kane, PhD, Dean Director and Foundation (973) 596-5696 of Graduate Studies Professor of Communications mfc.njit.edu New Jersey Homeland Security (973) 596 3262 and Signal Processing Technology Systems Center http://www.njit.edu/admissions/gradu- (973) 596-8474 New Jersey Center for Donald H. Sebastian, PhD, ate/howtoapply/criteria/collabora- ccspr.njit.edu Engineered Particulates Executive Director tive_programs.php Rajesh N. Dave, PhD, Director (973) 596-8449 Center for Manufacturing Systems (973) 596-5860 hls.njit.edu Wayne Chaneski, MBA, www.njit.edu/njcep Executive Director New Jersey Health Information (973) 596-2874 Rehabilitation Engineering Technology Extension Center www.njit.edu/cms/ Research Center William O’Byrne, Executive Director Richard A. Foulds, PhD, Director 856-229-3831 Center for Membrane Technologies 973-596-3335 Kamalesh Sirkar, PhD, Director http://rerc.njit.edu/ Polymer Processing Institute and Foundation Professor of Ming Young, PhD, President Membrane Separations Solar Cell Research Center (973) 596-3267 (973) 596-8447 Kenneth Chin, PhD, Director www.polymers-ppi.org engineering.njit.edu/ 973-596-3297 research/membrane/ Real World Connections Smart Campus Osama Eljabiri, Director Center for Solar Quentin Jones, PhD, Director 973-981-1049 Terrestrial Research 973-596-5290 realworldconnections.net/default.aspx Big Bear Solar Observatory smartcampus.njit.edu Philip Goode, PhD, Director Small Business Institute (909) 866-5791 Structural Analysis of Bruce Kirchhoff, PhD, Director bbso.njit.edu Biomedical Ontologies Center 973-596-5658 Yehoshua Perl, PhD, Co-Director http://web.njit.edu/~kirchhof/ Owens Valley Solar Array James Geller, PhD, Co-Director sbi/Intro.html Dale Gary, PhD, Director 973-596-3392 (973) 642-7878 www.cis.njit.edu/~oohvr/ York Center ovsa.ovro.caltech.edu/ SABOC/introduction.html Helen Gramcko, Director of Operations (973) 596-5883

New Jersey Discovery 9 Rowan University: Engineering, science, business and other programs contribute to New Jersey and beyond

n labs and classrooms at Rowan University, Glassboro, National Academies of Engineering and National Geographic. Those hundreds of professors and students are conducting grants join others from organizations such as the National Institutes research that makes a difference to local and regional of Health, U.S. Navy and Exxon. The $5.1 million the University businesses, non-profit organizations and government offices has garnered so far in FY 2010 is a highly competitive figure for a and to the economy. They study and work in the Colleges University that is primarily an undergraduate educational institution. of Engineering, Liberal Arts & Sciences and Business, the It’s only part of the picture: equally important are the interdisciplinary South Jersey Technology Park and beyond. collaborations that outside groups can tap into. At Rowan, a selective, medium-sized public university, on any given day it’s possible to see: External organizations fund multiple projects I• An engineering team working to develop a catheter that will cool Professors have been working with undergraduate and graduate heart and brain tissue after a heart attack or stroke 10 times more students on more than 100 externally funded projects in technical quickly than current technology. and business areas. For their work, they have received numerous local, • Business students competing to develop the most effective website regional, national and international honors. Rowan also has been for an area non-profit. recognized by many organizations. • Science students conducting cancer research with a nationally • U.S. News & World Report ranks Rowan 22nd in Northern recognized professor. Regional Universities. Rowan’s College of Engineering is ranked During state fiscal year 2009, Rowan professors received $7.3 million 15th, and three of its four programs are in the top 10. in grants from such organizations as the National Science Foundation, • The Princeton Review included Rowan in “The Best Northeastern Colleges,” “The Best 366 Colleges” and “The Best 301 Business Schools.” • Rowan was selected for the Colleges of Distinction and was named one of “America’s 100 Best College Buys” by Institutional Research and Evaluation, Inc. The projects faculty and students undertake — and their funding — are a huge plus for Rowan’s professors, many of whom are building research programs. The projects also are important for Rowan’s students, who often are enjoying opportunities available at the graduate level in larger institutions. The projects are critical for others, too. Rowan teams’ work supports small businesses, supplements the research being conducted at larger companies and provides non-profit groups and government offices with the kinds of skills that would be difficult to otherwise afford. “We have ideas that we would like trialed; INTO THE CAVE . . . Rowan students under the direction of electrical and computer engineering professor Dr. Shreekanth however, we do not have the resources here to Mandayam are conducting several research projects in the Cave Automatic Virtual Environment, known as a CAVE®, located at put engineers or chemists on them other than the South Jersey Technology Park. Last year, they worked on projects for NASA; the U.S. Navy; and Cooper’s Ferry Development in a consulting type of capacity,” said Rich Association, Camden.

10 New Jersey Discovery Gutowski, manufacturing manager, Chemicals and Catalysts, at the West Deptford branch of London-based specialty chemicals company Johnson Matthey. “We’ll negotiate with Rowan and decide on one to two projects they and we are interested in working on . . .” BUSINESS IS BLOOMING . . . Dr. Darren Nicholson (left) and MIS majors Erin Donegan (second from right) and Marlon Farlow (right) consulted with Colleen Henry on updates to her floral shop’s website, which Nicholson’s students designed. Rowan boasts resources, recognition, results Process Research Lab, which conducts research in the areas of All of Rowan’s six academic colleges (Business, Communication, advanced materials, bioprocessing, green engineering, food technology, Education, Engineering, Fine & Performing Arts, and Liberal Arts multiphase transport, particle technology, pharmaceutical engineering, & Sciences) and the College of Graduate and Continuing Education petroleum refining, renewable fuels/alternate energy and specialty have strong ties to the community. The Colleges of Business and chemical manufacture. Engineering and the science departments in the College of Liberal Arts Sustainable Design Lab, which focuses on clean energy, smart & Sciences work virtually daily with industry partners, small businesses, growth, energy efficiency, waste management, transportation and government offices and non-profits. experiments in new energy paradigms. Currently funded research is Rowan Engineering — which offers programs in chemical, civil and in photovoltaics, energy audits, wind resource assessment and novel environmental, electrical and computer, and mechanical engineering — energy processes. offers bachelor’s and master’s degrees and is accredited by ABET, the Automotive Lab, which researches a broad range of topics related organization that evaluates all engineering programs. to advanced technology vehicles, including emissions measurement, Within the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences are the Departments hybrid-electric power train design, electric vehicles and fuel cells. of Biological Sciences, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Physics and Virtual Reality Lab, which houses a fully immersive, navigable Astronomy, and Computer Science. The programs are accredited by and interactive virtual reality system, known as a CAVE®, for providing various relevant organizations, such as the American Chemical Society. advanced scientific visualization. The Rohrer College of Business, accredited by AACSB International The Tech Park, about a half-hour from Philadelphia, opened its first — The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business and by building, the Samuel H. Jones Innovation Center, in 2008. In addition ABET, emphasizes project-based learning, with students collaborating to labs, the building houses offices and the Center for Innovation on real-world projects for various organizations. The College offers and Entrepreneurship, the Rohrer College of Business Incubator and majors in accounting, entrepreneurship, human resource management, the Educational Information and Resource Center, Inc. That and finance, management information systems and marketing and an future buildings provide/will provide competitively priced facilities M.B.A. program. for start-up and established companies and for researchers, inventors,

entrepreneurs, professors and students. All tenants have access to the South Jersey Technology Park opens doors research, development and commercialization expertise of Rowan’s to expanded research engineering, science and business faculty, among others. The 12 College of Engineering labs that almost fill the first floor of the The Tech Park is a public/private partnership supported by the South Jersey Technology Park about two miles from the University in New Jersey Economic Development Authority, the New Jersey Mantua Township are dedicated to research, much of which is funded Commission on Science and Technology, South Jersey businessman by and supports outside organizations. Samuel H. Jones, the Rowan University Foundation, the U.S. That’s where their similarity ends, though. The students and Small Business Administration and the New Jersey Department of professors who work in those labs explore diverse topics. Among the Community Affairs. spaces housed at the Tech Park are the: continued on page 12

New Jersey Discovery 11 At-A-Glance Rowan University 201 Mullica Hill Road Glassboro, N.J. 08028 (856) 256-4000 www.rowan.edu

The South Jersey Technology Park 107 Gilbreth Parkway Mullica Hill, N.J. 08062-4446 (856) 256-4099 www.sjtechpark.org

the Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship. What a terrific job these students did! They listened, asked questions, devised approaches and (presented) a deliverable that easily rivaled the final product of what the project would have had to pay lots of money for.”

Business Incubator home for young firms and more An integral part of the CIE is the Rohrer College of Business Incubator, which provides tenant and virtual tenant facilities and services for emerging, high-growth technology businesses. BRAIN/COMPUTER CONNECTIONS . . . Dr. Robi Polikar (right), of Rowan’s Electrical & Computer Engineering program, is work- Located in the Tech Park, the Incubator ing with students on brain/computer interfaces, exploring ways that people can use their minds to power a computer and other provides entrepreneurs with access to Class A technology to complete a variety of actions. commercial space, fully equipped laboratories and a rich network of business resources Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship supports invaluable to their development and success. local and regional businesses An engine for economic growth, the Incubator assists companies with their business plans, strategic plans and go-to-market plans Major corporations like Lockheed Martin, Cherry Hill; small businesses by providing access to broad networks of professionals throughout like Flowers by Design, Glassboro; and nonprofits like Elwyn New the region, connection to Rowan faculty and students, office Jersey, a human services organization located in Vineland, have and reception services, research opportunities, and training and benefited from work conducted under the auspices of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE). Based in Rowan’s Rohrer mentoring programs. College of Business, the seven-year-old CIE focuses on fostering an environment that encourages entrepreneurial thinking and activity Support is wide ranging under professors and others who have created, managed, consulted or Tenants can access support to develop business and technology plans conducted research related to entrepreneurial endeavors. By combining and can exhibit at conferences and venture capital showcases. They practitioners and researchers from multiple disciplines in developing can tap into an extensive network of business resources: legal, venture entrepreneurial activities, Rowan has built a support system that capital, governmental, scientific, licensing, patent, grant funding, enhances the ability of students and other key stakeholders to turn ideas marketing and e-commerce. CIE is home to five young and developing into successful growth ventures. businesses as well as one established firm: The CIE manages programs and projects that influence Rowan • Provonix, a contract research organization that provides and the surrounding area, including numerous project-based learning individualized clinical trial solutions for pharmaceutical, efforts that team Rohrer College of Business undergraduate and M.B.A. biotechnology and medical device companies. students. For Lockheed, students analyzed pay scales. For Flowers by • FocalCool, L.L.C., a medical device startup company developing Design, teams worked on an interactive website and a business plan. For technology to reduce tissue damage from heart attacks and strokes Elwyn, they created a business plan to open and operate a thrift shop. under a grant from the National Institutes of Health. • French & Parrello Associates, P.A., a full-service engineering firm Center offers big results, no cost with corporate headquarters in Wall. “Time and again what we hear from our clients — who receive these • Strategic Billing Enterprises, which performs account-receivable services at no cost — is that our faculty and students provide professional services as an insurance billing contractor for medical, dental and services that directly impact their organizations’ futures — and often other offices. their bottom line,” said CIE Interim Director Sarah Piddington. • Sure ID, which provides services to reduce theft, minimize errors, A Rowan team conducted a case study for Brian Wolfson, partner in improve inventory control and increase staff efficiencies. Tricon Development Group, which is exploring renovating the G.G. Green • SRW Personnel, a financial resource and software development Building, Woodbury, into a playhouse. “As a Community Development company. Project there are limitations on the financial capacity to fund every aspect SocialReach, an ad network for social networking websites, recently of analysis,” Wolfson said. “Still, the need for accurate, comprehensive graduated from the Incubator. analysis exists. The challenge – How to get expert analysis, without the Said Brian Ruiz of Strategic Billing, “The incubator eliminates cost. The answer – Rowan M.B.A. students under the leadership of challenges and creates an environment that is the catalyst for success.” n

12 New Jersey Discovery Through Grant, Engineering Firm Funds High-Tech Research ission Solutions Engineering (MSE), aids, tools that will help the ADI users more quickly determine and of Arlington, Va., and Moorestown, act upon courses of action. The students will develop features that understands the value of research help improve the navigation around the globe and calculations that conducted at Rowan University and help determine potential collisions between two objects. The students’ recently awarded $100,000 to the computer code will be used as an external support for ADI in what is school’s Computer Science Department called an “independent library” and will enable users to employ portable to tap into that research. devices similar to a handheld Global Positioning System or GPS. Under a one-year contract, Rowan Ultimately, MSE — a full-service systems and software engineering University will help the firm improve the capabilities of a software provider with nearly 40 years’ experience in delivering mission systems systemM called Advanced Display Infrastructure (ADI). — will use the Rowan work to promote its ADI product and to cultivate ADI is an application that provides situational awareness to military more business from military service branches. users and others through a display of the Earth, using the World In addition to this project, the MSE/Rowan collaboration will include Geodetic System 1984, in part to show the location of military units. establishing a co-op program and offering master-level courses at MSE Similar to Google Earth, ADI allows users to navigate a globe to view facilities. those units and potential targets. “We are very excited to expand our partnership with Rowan Dr. Adrian Rusu, an associate professor of computer science, is University,” said MSE President Tim Caswell. “Through the ADI effort heading Rowan’s team of four undergraduate and graduate students on and co-op program, MSE is able to bring innovative perspectives to the project titled “Visualization and Software Engineering Strategies for our offerings, and students will interact with and learn from industry Tactical Decisions Advances.” leaders. We hope that the success of this program will lead to future The project focuses in part on developing software for new decision collaboration efforts in other areas.” n

HOW IT WORKS . . . Rowan computer science student Spence DiNicolantonio shows (left to right) MSE’s Alan Marsh, computer science professor and lab director Dr. Adrian Rusu and MSE’s Kimberly Davis some of the research a Rowan team is conducting for the Arlington, Va. and Moorestown-based firm. Rutgers: Pipeline of Innovation

utgers, The State The Northeast Structural Genomics Rutgers’ Center for Advanced Infrastructure University of New Consortium led by Dr. Gaetano T. Montelione, and Transportation (CAIT). The LTBP Jersey, is a leading is developing integrated technologies for program is envisioned as a 20-year research national public research high-throughput protein production and 3D study to expand quality information available university and the structure determination. on bridge performance in order to help bridge state’s preeminent, The Rutgers University Cell and and highway transportation managers make comprehensive public DNA Repository (RUCDR) led by Dr. better, data-driven decisions. This study will be institution of higher Jay Tischfield, plays a key role in research the first to collect uniform bridge performance education. Rutgers provides outstanding aimed at understanding the genetic causes data at the national level. Reducational opportunities to 40,500 of common, complex diseases. RUCDR A significant portion of the research at undergraduates and 14,100 graduate students activities enable gene discoveries leading to Rutgers is conducted on basic problems at its Camden, Newark, and New Brunswick diagnoses, treatments, and eventually cures which may serve as the foundation for applied campuses. The university offers more than for these diseases. RUCDR assists researchers commercial developments. An ideal example is 100 distinct bachelors, 100 masters, and 80 throughout the world by providing the highest the research led by Dr. Joachim Kohn, Director doctoral and professional degree. quality biomaterials, technical consultation, of the New Jersey Center for Biomaterials. In 2009, Rutgers received more than $300 and logistical support. Scientific knowledge of biomaterials, with million in federal-funding to support research The Federal Highway Administration’s direct support of $4.5M from the National and education programs Most of this federal Long-Term Bridge Performance (LTBP) Institutes of Health, is being translated into funding supports research on a broad range Program is led by Dr. Ali Maher, Director of medically useful products, services, and new of topics in life sciences, pharmacy, physical sciences, engineering, agriculture, social science, computer science, and the humanities. Rutgers is home to many large federally- funded research centers. The Protein Data Bank (PDB) led by Dr. Helen Berman, provides researchers around the world with information for studying the structures of 50,000 biological macromolecules and their relationships to genomic sequence, function, and disease. The Center of Excellence for Command, Control and Interoperability, led by Dr. Fred Roberts, is funded by the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to conduct research and develop technologies, tools, and advanced methods for information analysis, situational awareness, decision support, information sharing, and cyber infrastructure protection. The Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine led by Dr. Joachim Kohn, conducts research and develops new products and therapies for the repair of battlefield injuries through the use of regenerative medicine. This innovative approach employs biological therapies (including stem cells and growth factors), tissue and biomaterials engineering, and advanced transplantation methods that limit rejection, and enable the body to repair, replace, restore, and regenerate damaged tissues and organs. Figure 1. Federal Funding for Research at Rutgers

14 New Jersey Discovery therapies, including a hernia repair device, an the design and engineering of computing projects a year sponsored by corporations antimicrobial sleeve for prevention of infection systems that are capable of tuning themselves, on problems selected by mutual agreement of cardiac devices, and a cardiovascular stent. adapting their resources and operations to between the business and a faculty researcher. Four start-up companies (REVA Medical, current workloads, and anticipating the needs Sponsored projects at Rutgers can be a less TyRx Pharma, Lux Biosciences, and Renova) of their users. This center conducts research expensive means of conducting research for have licensed these technologies and have and development focused on improving businesses, particularly when the research attracted more than $120 million in private hardware, networks and storage, middleware, requires specialized equipment or expertise. equity funding, creating more than 100 high- service, and information layers used by As many corporations downsize their internal salary jobs. modern industry. R&D, research at universities such as Rutgers Some federal funding is specifically intended WINLAB (Wireless Information Network can help maintain a pipeline of innovation. to encourage collaborations between research Laboratory) is an industry-university Many sponsored projects involve students who universities and industry. The largest of such cooperative research center focused on are closely mentored by faculty researchers. projects at Rutgers, The National Science wireless technology, and is led by Dr. Dipankar Rutgers licenses the discoveries of its Foundation Engineering Research Center for Raychaudhuri. Its mission is to advance the inventors to a wide range of businesses Structured Organic Particulate Systems, is a development of wireless networking technology including large multi-national corporations $1.5M project led by Dr. Fernando Muzzio. by combining the resources of government, and small start-up companies. Some This center brings together faculty researchers industry, and academia. licensees sponsor additional projects and industry leaders to improve the way Rutgers is also involved in collaborations to adapt the technology for a particular pharmaceuticals, foods, and agriculture with businesses that result in federal grants application or product. The patenting of products are manufactured. This center, made to both the business and university. Rutgers technology, marketing and licensing and many others at Rutgers, invite industry Some of these grants are made under the of technology to companies, and negotiation representatives to guide the directions of and Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) of corporate-sponsored research projects is benefit from the centers’ discoveries. Rutgers and the Small Business Technology Transfer handled by the Rutgers Office of Technology is also the home to five NSF-funded Industry (STTR) programs. In addition to these types Commercialization (OTC). & University Cooperative Research Centers. of grants, which provide up to $1 million, These centers encourage collaborations larger collaborative grants are also made. For Rutgers’s Successes in between faculty and industry. example, a recent grant made by the National Technology Commercialization The Center for Dynamic Data Analytics led Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) In 2007, Rutgers ranked 35th of all universities by Dr. Dimitris Metaxas, develops algorithms under its Technology Innovation Program for and 5th of all universities without a medical and solutions to analyze and visualize The Automated Nonstructive Evaluation and school in technology transfer income, massive, complex, multidimensional, and Rehabilitation System (ANDERS) for bridge according to data released by the Association multi-scale data. decks, involves Rutgers and partners from of University Technology Managers (AUTM). The Ceramic, Composite and Optical several companies. Other examples include The income is derived from licenses to Materials Center led by Dr. Richard Haber, is numerous projects with companies funded both existing and start-up companies. In the conducting research on ceramic materials and by grants from the Department of Defense past few years, Rutgers faculty researchers processing, nanoparticulates and processes, (e.g., DARPA, ONR, AFOSR, ARO) the have been starting 7-10 companies a year opaque and transparent armor ceramics, Department of Energy (ARPA-E), and the to commercialize their inventions. At least optical material synthesis and processing, and Department of Homeland Securits. three publicly traded companies have spun materials for energy conversion. out of Rutgers in recent years. Ask.com is The Center for the Integration of Businesses Partnering based on technology originally developed at Composites into Infrastructure led by Dr. with Rutgers Rutgers under the leadership of Dr. Apostolos Perumalsa Balaguru, focuses on innovation Rutgers is a source of well-educated employees Gerasoulis, a professor of computer science. and mass-production of advanced polymer for many corporations. New Jersey’s pre- Gerasoulis started a company, Teoma, that composites to create new products such as eminent public university, Rutgers graduates was purchased by Ask Jeeves, and which pre-cast composite bridge decks and pavement more than 12,000 students a year. The was later renamed Ask.com. Professor of panels, and protection systems to increase majority of these students seek permanent Neuroscience, Dr. Paula Tallal, co-founded the the service life of infrastructure damaged employment immediately after graduation. Scientific Learning Corporation, producer of by natural and man-made disasters such as Furthermore, many students take internships the educational software Fast ForWord, based earthquakes and terror attacks. or part-time jobs with New Jersey businesses on her research in strengthening the skills The Center for Autonomic Computing, led while pursuing their degrees. of memory, attention, processing rate, and by Dr. Manish Parashar, focuses on improving Rutgers conducts more than 200 research continued on page 16

New Jersey Discovery 15 sequencing for children. Axion International, to study and promote economic development competitively priced custom courses can be Inc., designs, develops, and manufactures and entrepreneurship. CUEED concentrates offered at individual company locations. a new generation of eco-friendly structural on building strong corporate and community The Center for Management Development building materials. Axion’s technologies, partnerships to support the revitalization offers the Mini-MBA™ that provides an developed at Rutgers University, transform of Newark and other urban areas in New overview of the key concepts, tools, and recycled consumer and industrial plastics into Jersey, educating students by providing real techniques that are required to succeed in a myriad of structured products, including world experience in urban entrepreneurship today’s challenging business environment. The railroad ties and bridge supports. and economic development, and taking a program features focused learning experiences The breadth of Rutgers research is reflected multidisciplinary approach to research that and case studies in 10-12 three hour sessions. in the breadth of its corporate licenses. For will aid economic policy and decision making. The Master of Business and Science (MBS) example, in pharmaceutics, Professor Edmond The Rutgers–Camden Technology Campus degree is a new degree program at Rutgers that Lavoie’s discoveries have been licensed to is a science and technology incubator/ brings together master’s level study in science, both a start-up and an established company. accelerator established to support early- mathematics, and engineering with courses In August 2009, a start-up company, TAXIS stage companies in Camden as they create in business and policy. The goal of this new Pharmaceuticals Inc., was founded and economic wealth through commercialization degree program is to train the next generation signed an exclusive licensing agreement with of science and technology, development of new of individuals to assume key integrator Rutgers for worldwide rights to develop and business ideas, attraction of capital investment, and leadership roles in science-intensive commercialize one area of Dr. Lavoie’s research, and creation of new jobs. The incubator industries and to help translate research into a novel antimicrobial technology addressing supports its early-stage client companies commercialization to fuel innovation and multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacterial infections. by providing an array of strategic business economic growth in New Jersey and the U.S. Genzyme Inc., licensed patents relating to novel development services, operational guidance, A final capstone course covers technology compounds that inhibit Topoisomerase I, that and infrastructure support. valuation, entrepreneurship, and business were invented by Dr. Lavoie and others. In the Rutgers’ EcoComplex in Bordentown, New case development. The science concentrations area of agricultural research, Rutgers faculty Jersey, helps green companies commercialize include Biotechnology and Genomics, Drug member Dr. Nicholi Vorsa created a cranberry and market their ideas. The center offers Discovery and Development, Biomedical variety, the Crimson Queen, that offers earlier access to applied research and demonstration Engineering, Personal Care Chemistry, ripening and harvesting and large fruit size capabilities and facilitates the commercialization Food Sciences, International Agriculture, and superior vine vigor for rapid cranberry bed of new technologies that address pressing Sustainability, Urban Environmental Sciences establishment, enabling growers to achieve full environmental and energy issues. and Management, Information Technology, production up to two years earlier and with less The Food Innovation Center in User Experience Design, Electrical and need for chemical and pesticide intervention Bridgeton, New Jersey, provides business Computer Engineering, Actuarial Sciences, than standard varieties. This variety has been and technology expertise to small and and Industrial Mathematics. licensed to Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc., midsized food and agricultural businesses in and other growers. In the engineering space, New Jersey and nationwide. Rutgers and Technology Nuance Corporation has licensed technology Commercialization Ecosystem invented by Professor Richard Mammone for Taking Courses at Rutgers Rutgers is a vital part of the technology speech recognition applications. Rutgers has several educational opportunities commercialization ecosystem in New Jersey. designed specifically for employees in Rutgers serves as an important source of Rutgers Outreach to technology companies. talent and ideas to create the next generation Small Companies Rutgers Advanced Technology Extension of technology and innovation. However, Rutgers has a variety of programs designed to (RATE) is the continuing education arm universities cannot operate alone, and they assist small businesses. of the School of Engineering. RATE require partners in economic development. The Rutgers-Newark Small Business allows enrollment in single courses on These partners include businesses that Development Centers helps entrepreneurs and select topics or certificate programs with hire Rutgers graduates and offer internship business owners start and grow sustainable, groups of related courses. Courses and opportunities, companies with problems that successful small businesses through the certificate programs are in areas such as can be addressed by a top-tier comprehensive delivery of appropriate training and technical professional engineering review, green energy research institution, companies that license assistance services and programs. and corporate sustainability, information technology from Rutgers, angel and venture The Center for Urban Entrepreneurship & technology, user experience design, and web capital investors interested in investing in Economic Development (CUEED) at Rutgers technologies. Many of these programs lead early stage technologies, and experienced Business School integrates venture capital and to national certifications. Courses are offered entrepreneurs willing to lead early stage municipal resources with university research at six locations throughout New Jersey, and companies. n

16 New Jersey Discovery Office of Technology Commercialization Center for Advanced Infrastructure Center for Urban Entrepreneurship Dipanjan Nag and Transportation & Economic Development Corporate Sponsored Research Ali Maher dt ogilvie and Technology Licensing Contracts Transportation Infrastructure Urban Entrepreneurship http://otc.rutgers.edu http://cait.rutgers.edu/ Rutgers’ EcoComplex Master of Business and Science Degree Center for Structured Organic David Specca Deborah Silver Particulate Systems Incubation of Green Companies Professional Science Fernando Muzzio http://ecocomplex.rutgers.edu/ Masters Degree Pharmaceutical Manufacturing http://psm.rutgers.edu/ http://ercforsops.org/ Food Innovation Center Lou Cooperhouse Rutgers Advanced Technology Education Center for Computational Biomedicine Incubation of Food Companies Deborah Silver Imaging and Modeling www.foodinnovation.rutgers.edu/ Technology Courses and Certificates Dimitris Metaxas http://rate.rutgers.edu/ Data Analytics, Computational Biomedicine, Rutgers Energy Institute Computer Vision Paul Falkowski Center for Management Development www.cbim.rutgers.edu/ Alternative Energy Research Abe Weiss Mini-MBA http://ruei.rutgers.edu/ Center for Management Development Ceramic and Composite Materials Center www.cmd.rutgers.edu Richard Haber Center for Human Resource Strategy Ceramic Materials Paula Caligiuri Protein Data Bank ttp://ccmc.rutgers.edu/ Human Resource Strategy Helen Berman www.chrs.rutgers.edu/ Structure and Function of Bioactive Molecules Center for the Integration of www.pdb.org Composites into Infrastructure Environmental and Occupational Perumalsa Balaguru Health Sciences Institute Center for Discrete Mathematics and Advanced Polymer Composites Kenneth Reuhl Theoretical Computer Science Environmental and Occupational Health Fred Roberts Center for Autonomic Computing http://eohsi.rutgers.edu/ Information Analytics, Computational Analysis Manish Parashar http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/ Autonomic Computing Systems Institute for Advanced Materials, www.nsfcac.org/ Devices and Nanotechnology New Jersey Center for Biomaterials Leonard C. Feldman Joachim Kohn Wireless Information Network Laboratory Nanotechnology & Devices Biomaterials Dipankar Raychaudhuri http://iamdn.rutgers.edu/ www.njbiomaterials.org/ Wireless Technology www.winlab.rutgers.edu/ John J. Heldrich Center for Northeast Structural Genomics Consortium Workforce Development Gaetano Montelione Rutgers-Newark Small Business Carl Van Horn Structural Genomics Development Center Workforce development www.nesg.org/ Tendai Ndoro www.heldrich.rutgers.edu/ Small Business Development Rutgers University Cell and DNA Repository http://rnsbdc.newark.rutgers.edu/ Jay Tischfield Genetic causes of common, complex diseases Rutgers-Camden Small Business www.rucdr.org/ Development Center Gary Rago Small Business Development http://crab.rutgers.edu/~rsbdc/

New Jersey Discovery 17 Stevens Turns Ideas Into Real-World Products

or 140 years, Stevens in cybersecurity in addition to a wide range of Systems Engineering & Enterprise Institute of Technology research centers and facilities. Management - Addresses questions that are has been on the Research at Stevens is structured into three related to the nature of sociotechnologic systems forefront of innovation, overarching areas that are based on the needs within the context of global competitiveness educating the leaders of our society and a determination of how in their process to create economic value. and entrepreneurs of the the world class assets of the university can be Research efforts create unique knowledge future. From our founding utilized by industry and entrepreneurs. about the functionality of socioeconomic family’s engineering Nanotechnology & Multi-scale Systems systems and focus on developing practical breakthroughs in steamship and locomotive - Develops and implements nanotechnology- methods, tools and heuristics that leaders Fengineering to environmental startup enabled solutions spanning a broad spectrum can apply to increase the productivity of companies like Plasmasol and Hydroglobe, of engineering and science disciplines. Rooted sociotechnical systems and improve their Stevens provides undergraduate and graduate in nanoscale science, yet, focused on real- economic value. programs that prepare students to develop the world problems, these emerging technologies Dr. Joseph Mitola III is the Vice President of groundbreaking technologies of tomorrow. will have transformative value in the areas of the Research Enterprise. national and global interest including energy, Research health, electronics, communications, the Entrepreneurship The Research Enterprise at Stevens features environment and national security. Technogenesis® is an environment where three National Research Centers of Excellence: Secure Systems - Is a cross-disciplinary research innovation connects with business the Center for Secure & Resilient (CSR) research area focused on developing transitional development. At Stevens, this ensures that Maritime Commerce; Systems Engineering breakthroughs in national security technology. entrepreneurial activities are initiated at Research Center (SERC); and the Atlantic The Maritime Security Laboratory established the faculty level and supported throughout Center for the Innovative Design & Control in partnership with the U.S. Navy focuses on the development process by the academic of Small Ships (ACCESS). Stevens also emerging maritime threats while researchers administration. features the Center for the Advancement of in the departments of Mathematics, Computer The Office of Academic Entrepreneurship, Secure Systems & Information Assurance Science, Computer Engineering and Physics led by Associate Provost Dr. Christos (CASSIA); a nexus for research advancements work on a wide variety of cybersecurity issues. Christodoulatos, provides abundant tools and support for students, faculty and research scientists to ensure that ideas are successfully transitioned into the marketplace. HydroGlobe is an outstanding example of a Stevens company having gone through the entire lifecycle development process. A Technogenesis® environmental company, HydroGlobe produced patented products for the removal of heavy metals from water – including lead and arsenic. Originally founded by three Stevens professors, their research has since been acquired by Graver Technologies, a leading manufacturer of filtration and separation products. PlasmaSol, another Stevens spinout, was named Environmental Company of the Year in 2000 by the New Jersey Technology Council (NJTC). PlasmaSol is exclusively licensed by Stevens to use its new patented plasma technology, “Capillary Discharge Non-Thermal Plasma,” for environmental applications.

18 New Jersey Discovery Stevens Innovations and get started. This is a major commitment that required to succeed in today’s marketplace. Enterprise Development Stevens has made to its faculty, researchers The world-class centers of excellence, research The resounding success of our entrepreneurial and partners. facilities and laboratories are home to many ventures has been taken to the next level with “Stevens dual focus on entrepreneurship and groundbreaking innovations and patents. the introduction of Stevens Innovations (SI) enterprise development is a key differentiator Please contact us to learn how 140 years LLC, a virtual incubator led by Vice President, for the University. Our understanding of what of innovation and entrepreneurship can assist Malcolm Khan. it takes to develop completely engineered, your business needs. Also, stay up-to-date on Based on a strong pipeline of technology commercially viable products and turn them the latest Research & Entrepreneurship news coming from its expert researchers and from into professionally run businesses is well by joining us on Facebook and Twitter or by relationships the University is developing with documented,” said Malcolm Kahn. visiting our news and research portals! n other organizations, SI is an investment vehicle The process of innovation and that helps researchers and entrepreneurs turn entrepreneurship provides lucrative http://www.facebook.com/StevensRE their ideas into real-world products. SI offers opportunities for businesses, venture capitalists http://buzz.stevens.edu a full range of services from office support and and entrepreneurs while our academic programs http://www.twitter.com/RE_Stevens business development, to assistance in raising are built in collaboration with professional capital and is in the process of raising its own societies and corporations to ensure that our http://research.stevens.edu investment fund to help early stage companies graduates are perfectly aligned with the skills

CADEYES, a new Stevens Spin-out company, has developed a mobile 3D scanning device capable of producing dimensionally accurate CAD-ready drawings of buildings and landscapes in a fraction of the time of conventional methods. The 15 acre scan above was done in less than 1 hour and provides architects and engineers with a high level of detail, including texture information through a combination of LIDAR lasers and high-definition cameras.

New Jersey Discovery 19 At-A-Glance Research Centers & Labs Stevens Institute of Technology Center for Environmental Systems Center for Intelligent Networked Systems Castle Point on Hudson, Hoboken NJ 07030-5991 www.ces.stevens.edu/ www.stevens.edu/inets/ www.stevens.edu/sit/ Dr. Christos Christodoulatos [email protected] Dr. Victor Lawrence Phone: 201.216.5000 Phone: 201.216.5675 [email protected] Phone: 201.216.5636 Enterprise Development & Licensing Highly Filled Materials Institute www.stevens.edu/startups/ www.hfmi.stevens.edu/ Maritime Security Laboratory Malcolm Kahn, Vice President Dr. Dilhan M. Kalyon [email protected] www.stevens.edu/msl/ [email protected] Phone: 201.216.8225 Dr. Julie Pullen Phone: 201. 216.8780 [email protected] Design & Manufacturing Institute Phone: 650.269.9394 Research Enterprise www.dmi.stevens.edu/ www.stevens.edu/research/ Dr. Kishore Pochiraju [email protected] Business Process Innovation Dr. Joseph Mitola III, Vice President Phone: 201.216.8053 www.stevens.edu/bpmresearch [email protected] Dr. Michael zur Muehlen Phone: 201. 216.5263 Micro Devices Laboratory [email protected] www.stevens.edu/mdl Phone: 201.216.8293 Academic Entrepreneurship Dr. Eui-Hyeok Yang www.stevens.edu/entrepreneurship/ [email protected] Center for Complex Adaptive Dr. Christos Christodoulatos, Associate Provost Phone: 201.216.5574 Sociotechnological Systems [email protected] http://socio-technical.org/ Phone: 201.216.5675 Laboratory for Multiscale Ali Mostashari Imaging www.stevens.edu/lmsi/ [email protected]; Dr. Matthew Libera Phone: 201.216.8723 [email protected] Centers of Excellence Phone: 201.216.5259 Center for Decision Technologies http://howe.stevens.edu/cdt Center for Secure & Resilient Dr. Jeffrey V. Nickerson Maritime Commerce Center for Maritime Systems [email protected] www.stevens.edu/csr/ www.stevens.edu/cms/ Phone: 201.216.8124 Dr. Hady R. Salloum Dr. Alan F. Blumberg [email protected] [email protected] Phone: 201.216.5289 Systomics Laboratory Phone: 201.216.8575 Center for the Advancement of Secure http://systomicslab.com/ Dr. Brian Sauser Systems Engineering Research Center Systems & Information Assurance [email protected] www.sercuarc.org/ www.stevens.edu/cassia Phone: 201.216.8589 Dr. Arthur Pyster Dr. Susanne Wetzel [email protected] [email protected] Phone: 703.717.8110 Phone: 201.216.5610

Atlantic Center for the Innovative Design & Control of Small Ships www.stevens.edu/access Dr. Raju V. Datla [email protected] Phone: 201.216.5568

Research Trusts Nanotechnology & Multiscale Systems www.stevens.edu/multiscale

Secure Systems www.stevens.edu/secsys

Systems Engineering & Enterprise Management www.stevens.edu/sem

20 New Jersey Discovery Princeton University Engages in Partnerships to Further Research and Innovation

by Hilary Parker

s a research institution, Princeton University seeks to achieve the highest levels of distinction in the advancement, preservation and dissemination of knowledge. The University’s leaders hold the core belief that the knowledge generated at Princeton should serve the public interest and welfare, whether by deepening the understanding of the world, addressing pressing societal problems or strengthening the economy. Entrepreneurs and businesses often play a valuable role in helping the AUniversity achieve this goal by helping to enable path-breaking research efforts at Princeton and serving as a conduit for discovery from Princeton labs into the marketplace. These collaborations bring together leading minds in fields across the intellectual spectrum from academia and industry, and often provide industry partners with access to intellectual property and state-of-the- art research facilities at the University. The Office of the Dean for Research -- which encompasses the offices of technology licensing, corporate and foundation relations, and research and project administration -- fosters the development of a wide range of partnerships between the University and external sponsors and partners. “The discoveries made by world-class Princeton scientists and engineers on a quest for fundamental new knowledge lay the crucial groundwork for applications that improve human wellbeing and bolster the economy,” said Princeton Dean for Research A.J. Stewart Smith. “Vital collaborations with investors and corporations allow these benefits to be tapped to the fullest potential.” Several of Princeton’s research centers, such as the Mid-Infrared Technologies for Health and the Environment (MIRTHE) Center, and academic departments, including chemistry and computer science, have established industry memberships and corporate affiliate programs. These confer a range of opportunities to entrepreneurs and businesses in the full array of technology and industry sectors. These ongoing and regular interactions between Princeton researchers and industry partners enable joint research projects, facilitate the technology transfer process, and establish relationships between industry members and Princeton students, many of whom will become invaluable members of tomorrow’s work force. Beyond formalized partnership programs, there are a number of avenues through which businesses may connect with the Princeton research continued on page 22

Photo Credits: Princeton University, Office of Communications, Denise Applewhite (top 4 images) David Hunsinger (bottom)

New Jersey Discovery 21 community. Events such as the Celebrate Perhaps one of the greatest technology or metastatic nonsquamous non-small cell Princeton Invention reception, sponsored by transfer success stories is Alimta, the lung cancer. Although no drugs exist to cure the Office of the Dean for Research, and the blockbuster anti-cancer drug that developed lung cancer, Alimta has been successful in annual Innovation Forum, sponsored by the out of discoveries made in the lab of Edward treating the disease, improving the quality University’s Keller Center for Innovation in Taylor, Princeton’s A. Barton Hepburn of life and extending the lifespan of millions Engineering Education, provide introductions Professor of Organic Chemistry Emeritus, in of cancer patients in nearly 100 countries, to some of the commercially available partnership with Eli Lilly and Co. scientists. and with fewer side effects than many other technologies at Princeton. Each year such Approved for the treatment of malignant chemotherapeutic agents. events feature a host of colloquia, lectures pleural mesothelioma by the U.S. Food and Speaking at the 2009 Celebrate Princeton and panels on a multitude of research efforts Drug Administration in 2004, the drug has Invention reception, Princeton President underway at Princeton. since received three additional FDA approvals, Shirley M. Tilghman said of the collaboration, When businesses or Princeton researchers most recently in July when the compound “There is no better example of how this identify a potential opportunity for became the first chemotherapy approved kind of partnership plays out for the benefit collaboration, the Office of Corporate and for use as a maintenance therapy to extend of humankind.” n Foundation Relations customizes a partnership survival for patients with locally advanced that is well aligned with both industry needs and Princeton research priorities. Efforts range from establishing joint research projects and co-managed funds, to sponsoring an individual faculty member’s research and supporting or endowing graduate fellowships or professorships. Businesses also harness the potential of Princeton research by licensing discoveries made in University labs. In the 2009 fiscal year alone, more than 300 faculty members, research professionals and students participated in research and technology transfer activities. The discoveries currently available for licensing cover the technological spectrum, including computer software and hardware, optoelectronics, materials science and biotechnology. “Collaboration with investors, entrepreneurs and businesses helps transform basic research into applications and technologies that will make the world a better place, and we recognize that these partnerships are crucial drivers of the innovation process,” said John Ritter, director of Princeton’s Office of Technology Licensing. Photo Credit: Princeton University, Office of Communications, Denise Applewhite

22 New Jersey Discovery Princeton University Research Centers, Institutes and Labs Research Administration Princeton’s many institutes, centers and research programs work across traditional academic boundaries to Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations promote research and teaching that is interdisciplinary, collaborative and groundbreaking. These include: http://cfr.princeton.edu/cfr/ Contact: David Langiulli, director Mid-Infrared Technologies for Health Combustion Energy Frontier Research Center 609.258.5954 and the Environment Center (MIRTHE) http://cefrc.princeton.edu/ [email protected] www.mirthecenter.org Specialty: Combustion science Specialty: Mid-infrared trace gas sensing systems Contact: Chung K. Law, director and Office of Technology Licensing Contact: Joseph Montemarano, managing director the Robert H. Goddard Professor of www.princeton.edu/patents/index.htm and Princeton Institute for the Science and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Contact: John Ritter, director Technology of Materials entrepreneurial liaison 609.258.5271 609.258.1570 609.258.2267 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Center for Networks Science and Applications Office of Research and Project Administration Princeton Center for Complex Materials (PCCM) www.princeton.edu/cnsa/ www.princeton.edu/~orpa1/ www.princeton.edu/~pccm/ Specialty: Network science Contact: Jeff Friedland, director Specialty: Materials science Contact: Paul Prucnal, director and 609.258.3090 Contact: Anthony Novembre, associate director professor of electrical engineering [email protected] 609.258.6855 609.258.5549 [email protected] [email protected] Office of the Dean for Research www.princeton.edu/main/research/dean/ Princeton Institute for the Science Princeton Physical Sciences-Oncology Center Contact: A. J. Stewart Smith, dean for research and Technology of Materials (PRISM) http://physics.cancer.gov/centers/ 609.258.5500 http://www.princeton.edu/prism/ adv_princeton.asp?p=home [email protected] Specialty: Materials science, optics and sensors Specialty: The evolution of cancer under stress Contact: Anthony Novembre, associate director Contact: Sally Waltman, associate director 609.258.6855 609.258.2602 [email protected] [email protected]

Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI) www.genomics.princeton.edu/ http://web.princeton.edu/sites/pei/index.html Specialty: Genomics, quantitative biology Specialty: Environmental research, Contact: Kara Dolinski, assistant director education and outreach 609.258.8306 Contact: Holly Welles, manager of PEI [email protected] communications and outreach 609.258.6456 Princeton Neuroscience Institute [email protected] www.princeton.edu/neuroscience/ Specialty: Neuroscience Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) Contact: Patricia Gensel, assistant director www.pppl.gov/index.cfm 609.258.4113 Specialty: Plasma science and fusion energy [email protected] Contact: John DeLooper, P.E., PPPL head, best practices and outreach 609.243.3047 [email protected]

New JerseyNew Discovery Jersey Discovery 23 University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ Bringing Science to Market

by Eve Jacobs

ot even a feverish “bench” to law school — so he could prepare know they have a skilled, determined advocate flu can keep “the for a career in “tech transfer.” to see them through the process. “As the review patent guy” down With the necessary background in science, is going on, we are also aggressively marketing for long. His mile- he was accepted into the Franklin Pierce Law to pharma, diagnostic, medical device and high schedule Center in Concord, NH, repeatedly ranked biotechnology firms,” Smeraglia states. sends him moving among the country’s top 10 in intellectual “Success means a licensing agreement,” north to south, property law by U.S. News and World Report. giving the licensee permission to use the east to west along After graduating, he worked for McCarter invention to make a product, he says. The New Jersey’s highways and zipping along the and English for one year and Rutgers’ Office company will have to demonstrate safety Nelectronic global thruways. Perhaps his arrival of Technology Commercialization for six years and efficacy of the product to the FDA, at UMDNJ five years ago created this need, or before landing at UMDNJ, where he managed which usually takes three to five years, but maybe he appeared in exactly the right place to double the number of license agreements sometimes up to eight years. “We get a royalty at the right time for a job that sorely needed signed in his very first year. — a percentage of the sale of the product,” his attention. As Federal grant monies dwindle, income he states, which is divided, according to a Lucky that the patent guy — also known from the commercialization of intellectual formula, among the University, the school, as Vince Smeraglia — has big energy and property becomes ever more important to the department, the inventor and the Office a big personality to meet his position’s universities. “There is a lot of compelling, of Patents and Licensing, which uses its small growing demands. Think of him in terms of fraction of the pie to underwrite its operations. a major bridge — connecting the University’s innovative research going on here,” says researchers with a world of commercial Smeraglia, but little of it traveled into the “A licensed technology, if successful, can potential and intricacy that many had once marketplace before the patent guy came provide a terrific monetary benefit to UMDNJ perceived as foreign, and somewhat sinister, onboard to teach, encourage and handhold and a solution to an unmet medical need for territory. A scientist by training and first through the complex, often tedious and always the public,” he says. career, as well as an attorney with the right expensive process called technology transfer. “Our University is an upstart, but we’re background to protect intellectual property, “Filing patent applications is time- coming along rapidly,” states Smeraglia with he straddles these worlds with relative ease, consuming and resource-intensive,” he pride. With 75 to 80 inventions submitted to speaking the specialized languages of both, explains. The review process can stretch to his office annually for review, and ongoing inhibited by the boundaries of neither. several years, and the “inventor will have to relationships with more than 100 UMDNJ With a BS in biochemistry from Rutgers in spend a lot of time with a lawyer properly faculty members, the patent guy’s schedule hand, Smeraglia landed a first job at Cytogen describing the invention and helping to refute won’t be slowing down anytime soon. In Corporation in Princeton in 1989, where he patent examiners’ legal arguments of why the fact, his work-life will likely become even did lab research in cancer diagnostics for seven inventor should not get the patent.” more hectic. years. The young scientist found a lunchtime But this is a road that Smeraglia has walked But he’s not worried. “I love this job,” he lecture by a patent attorney so compelling that down many times. He knows his way and says. “It’s thrilling and it is an important and he boldly decided to take the giant step from doesn’t lose heart; and University inventors growing part of UMDNJ’s success.” n

24 New Jersey Discovery UMDNJ Major Centers and Institutes The Cancer Institute of New Jersey The New Jersey Medical School University Hospital Cancer Center Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine Center for Biodefense Center for Public Health Preparedness Center for Tobacco Surveillance and Evaluation Research (CTSER) Child Health Institute of New Jersey Clinical Research Organization (CRO) Fast Facts Division of AIDS Education, The Center for Continuing and Outreach Education http://www.umdnj.edu/research/ Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute 4 Main Campuses: 4 Principal Teaching Hospitals: • Newark • UMDNJ-University Hospital Eric B. Chandler Health Center • Stratford, • Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital François-Xavier Bagnoud Center • Camden • Cooper Hospital/University Medical Center New Jersey Institute for Successful Aging • Piscataway/New Brunswick • Kennedy Memorial Hospital • Branch Campus: Scotch Plains University Medical Center The Informatics Institute of UMDNJ Institute for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Largest Institution of its Kind in 3 University Hospitals: The Institute for the Elimination the Nation with 8 Schools: • Hackensack University Medical Center of Health Disparities • New Jersey Medical School • Meridian Hospitals Corporation/Jersey The New Jersey Medical School • Robert Wood Johnson, Medical School Shore University Medical Center • School of Osteopathic Medicine • University Medical Center at Princeton Global Tuberculosis Center • New Jersey Dental School at UMDNJ University • Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences New Jersey Medical School and University Hospital • School of Health Related Professions • School of Nursing Robert Wood Johnson Medical School • School of Public Health New Jersey Dental School School of Osteopathic Medicine School of Health Related Professions (l-r) Laura M. Schepps, MBA, Director of Finance & Administration; Barbara V. Maurer, Esq, Patent Counsel; School of Nursing Vincent A. Smeraglia, Esq, Director; Tatiana Litvin-Vechnyak, PhD, Assistant Director, all from the UMDNJ School of Public Health Office of Patents & Licensing Photo: Andrew Hanenberg. University Behavioral Healthcare

New Jersey Discovery 25 New Jersey Public and Private Colleges and Universities – Research Sites/Capabilities

Drew University Kean University Monmouth University www.drew.edu www.kean.edu www.monmouth.edu The Charles A. Dana Research Institute for The Office of Research and Sponsored Programs The mission of The Urban Coast is to serve Monmouth Scientists Emeriti (RISE) at Drew University offers (ORSP) provides leadership and assistance in all University and the public interest as a forum for undergraduates a unique opportunity to engage in areas of external grant funding to the Kean University research, education, and collaboration in the research under the supervision of retired industrial community. ORSP provides information, services development and implementation of science-based scientists. Since 1981 Institute fellows have guided and support to assist faculty and staff to compete policies and programs that support stewardship of the research efforts of nearly two hundred students successfully for external funding to conduct research healthy, productive, and resilient coastal ecosystems majoring in biology, chemistry, mathematics, and and scholarship; engage in creative work; develop and communities. The UCI maintains a principal physics. The program is believed to be the only curriculum; advance student learning, aid recruitment focus on the interactions between humans and the one of its kind in the nation and in 1989 received and retention; support campus programming and coastal and ocean environment, and sustainable the prestigious Merck Innovation Award for community outreach. We aid faculty and staff coastal development along New Jersey’s coasts Undergraduate Science Education “for fresh thinking from the pre-award prospect research, planning and watersheds. Monmouth County and the New and imaginative use of resources.” and submission phases through the post-award Jersey-New York region is an ideal “laboratory” for management processing and reporting stages. In study of these issues. The UCI has a unique focus on addition to grants and contracts administration, our how good science can inform public policy and the responsibilities encompass management of internal “human dimensions” of coastal ecosystem-based Fairleigh Dickinson University research awards, oversight for sponsored programs, management, including the impacts of human use www.fdu.edu and compliance with applicable Federal, State, and and development on coasts. The Silberman College of Business sponsors a series University policies and regulations including research of business research studies that involve faculty involving human subjects and care and use of and students. The College publishes several working laboratory animals. paper series and The Journal of Pharmaceutical Montclair State University Chemical Business. Faculty also are developing www.montclair.edu a unique research strength in entrepreneurship. Institutes: African American Studies, The Coccia The Kean Autism Research Institute for the Italian Experience in America, The faculty are also engaged in research in the and Education Center Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for areas of economics, management, marketing, www.kean.edu/~kare Children, Institute for the Humanities, The Margaret human resources, health care, entrepreneurship, The Kean Autism Research and Education Center’s and Herman Sokol Institute for Pharmaceutical Life management information systems, accounting, (KARE) mission is to advance research in autism Sciences, Passaic River Institute finance, business law, taxation, quantitative analysis, spectrum disorders (ASD); to educate professionals production management and operations management. to work in an interdisciplinary manner to improve Centers: ADP Center for Teacher Preparation Finally, research also is an integral component the lives of individuals with ASD; and to provide and Learning Technologies, Center for Academic of activities at Anthony J. Petrocelli College of information, training, and a lifetime of support to Development and Assessment, Center for Academic Continuing Studies. Faculty pursue scholarly inquiry individuals and their families. The KARE Center Advising and Adult Learning, Center for Archaeological in areas that include 19th-century European history, is located on the campus of Kean University in Studies, Center for Child Advocacy, Center for the history of the Bronx, medieval French and English Union, New Jersey. The KARE Center research Community-based Learning, Center of Pedagogy, literature, classical philosophy and ethical issues in program supports multi-disciplinary clinical and Center for Economic Research on Africa (CERAF), the late 20th century. applied research focused on developing effective Center for International Business (CIB), Community intervention and treatment methods that improve Outreach Partnership Center (COPC), DuMont TV the lives of individuals and families affected by Center, Global Education Center, International Trade autism spectrum disorders The KARE Center Counseling Center (ITCC), Research Academy for interdisciplinary autism education program supports University Learning, Student Academic Services, evidence-based education to prepare highly trained Women’s Center. professionals from many separate disciplines to work with individuals and families that are affected by autism spectrum disorders. The KARE interdisciplinary education program serves teachers, school-based professionals and community-based professionals. The program offers an 18 credit, graduate-level certificate for teachers and professionals as well as specialized workshops and conferences.

26 New Jersey Discovery Ramapo College of New Jersey Saint Peter’s College The College of New Jersey www.ramapo.edu www.spc.edu www.tcnj.edu The School of Theoretical and Applied Science has The Center for Microplasma Science & Technology Centers: Bonner Center for Civic and Community been a distinct and incorporate part of Ramapo (CMST) at Saint Peter’s College (SPC) is a designated Engagement, Center for Assistive Technology and College since it admitted its first class in 1971. Since Center of Excellence (CoE) and the National Inclusive Educational Studies — CATIES, Center its inception, the School of TAS has been committed laboratory for advanced research and development for Youth Relationship Development, The Institute to excellence in teaching, research, and public service in microplasmas. The CMST was founded in 2009 for Educational Design, Evaluation, and Assessment in the sciences and mathematics, and has sought through Department of Defense (DoD) funding from (IeDEA), Municipal Land Use Center, Small Business to prepare its graduates not only for professional the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Development Center and academic careers but to be scientifically literate to serve as the United States of America’s first citizens and lifetime learners in an increasing and only scientific and educational center devoted complex and ever changing technological culture. The entirely to the emerging field of microplasmas. School of TAS places a strong emphasis on teaching, CMST engages in sponsored research programs The Richard Stockton College practice, and public service. It encourages faculty/ dedicated to improving our Nation’s scientific and of New Jersey student collaborative research as a continuing course technological capabilities. As an affiliated entity of www.stockton.edu of study. Its faculty and graduates continue to serve SPC’s Department of Applied Science and Technology The Coastal Conservation Research Program as rich resources to governmental agencies, academic (DAST), CMST supports the three core Institutional (CCRP) is the outgrowth of a research program institutions, and private research facilities to promote missions of Research, Education, and Public Service. initiated in 1989 at the Wetlands Institute on the the public good and educational excellence. The current nature of the research spans the spectrum Cape May Peninsula of southernmost New Jersey. from fundamental inquiries into the basic plasma Located on 6,000 acres of coastal salt marsh, the physics and chemistry of microplasmas to the work Wetlands Institute promotes research, education, on potential microplasma technological applications. and conservation through a variety of methods CMST maintains five active research laboratories on Rider University including classes, field research, and local community the Jersey City campus of Saint Peter’s College that www.rider.edu involvement. The CCRP is a partnership between the support the various research projects. Undergraduate The Psychology Department encourages students Wetlands Institute, Richard Stockton College of New and local high school students have the opportunity to become involved in research projects. Research Jersey (RSC), and other public and private partners. to work with six full-time CMST staff members on programs span all major areas in the curriculum. The CCRP focuses its research and conservation various projects. Many of the projects have been funded by outside efforts on issues related to our close proximity to the sources including the Federal Government and the dense human population of the northeastern United State of New Jersey. A significant level of funding States. Over the past 20 years, nearly 200 college is provided by Rider itself in recognition of the and university students from over 100 academic Department’s proven track-record of integrating Seton Hall University institutions throughout the United States and abroad undergraduates into faculty research programs. www.shu.edu have participated in our program. The CCRP now Students can assist faculty in their research by taking The Center for Community Research and Engagement annually involves approximately 10-15 student Directed Study in Psychology (Psy-295), as well as (CCRE) was created in 1997 to coordinate the researchers working closely with research scientists work on their own project by taking Independent activities of Seton Hall University as it implements on a wide variety of projects. Research and Study (Psy-490) under the supervision service learning and community-based research on of a faculty member. Areas include: Research in campus. The mission of the Center for Community Developmental Psychology, Applied Developmental Research and Engagement is to develop partnerships Research / Community-Based Program for Individuals that integrate Seton Hall University faculty, students, William Paterson University with Special Needs, Research on the Psychology staff and our neighboring communities through of New Jersey of Cyberspace, Research in Community Health applied research, active learning, and action projects, www.wpunj.edu Psychology. aimed at enhancing both the learning environment Students are encouraged to join faculty in conducting and community capacity. research. Financial support for students is often available through grants awarded to members of our faculty. In addition, the recently established WPUNJ Student Undergraduate Research Program, supported by the Office of the Provost, provides monetary support and recognition to students pursuing independent research. Students are also encouraged to conduct independent research projects under the supervision of a member of our biology faculty.

New Jersey Discovery 27 BioNJ New Jersey With more than 275 member companies, BioNJ focuses on the Economic Development Authority (EDA) growth and prosperity of New Jersey’s biotechnology cluster. The EDA is a financing and development agency that serves as New Founded in 1994 by NJ industry CEOs, BioNJ serves as the Jersey’s “bank for business” by providing support to the Partnership voice of the State’s biotechnology industry, seeks to advance our for Action through its financing and incentive resources. With its members’ economic development and works to encourage new large portfolio of varied programs and services, the EDA’s mission and established companies from around the world to locate to New is to strengthen New Jersey’s economy by retaining and growing Jersey. BioNJ represents companies engaged in biopharmaceutical, businesses through financial assistance, by renewing communities, and biomedical, bioagricultural and bioremedial endeavors. by promoting the State’s strategic advantages to attract businesses. If you are interested in hearing about what the EDA can do for Debbie Hart, President, BioNJ your business, contact the State’s Business Service Center at (866) 609-890-3185 534-7789 or Email [email protected]. [email protected] www.BioNJ.org 866-534-7789 [email protected] www.njeda.com

HealthCare Institute of New Jersey The HealthCare Institute of New Jersey is a trade association for the research-based biopharmaceutical and medical technology industry New Jersey Technology Council in New Jersey. Founded in 1997, the Institute serves as a unified The NJTC was founded 14 years ago by business leaders who saw voice for the industry and seeks to build awareness of this industry’s a need for one central support organization to foster growth within impact on New Jersey’s quality of life and economic well-being. There the fastest growing business sectors in the region – IT/Software, are currently 34 members of the HealthCare Institute of New Jersey. Environment/Energy, Life Sciences, Telecommunications, Advanced Materials and Electronics. These are the foundation pillars of New 908-212-0333 Jersey’s vibrant technology community. New trends catch on— www.hinj.org clean tech, green tech and nano tech, for example—and programs designed to help companies succeed at every stage of the business growth cycle evolve.

New Jersey Business Incubation Network Maxine Ballen, CEO & President, NJTC The New Jersey Business Incubation Network (NJBIN) 856-787-9700 is a collaborative state-wide community of business [email protected] experts, resources and facilities dedicated to enhancing www.njtc.org the commercial success of early-stage entrepreneurial companies, growing higher paying jobs in New Jersey and supporting the Economic Growth Strategy for the State. NJBIN incubators provide early-stage companies critical support New Jersey Discovery services in a professional business environment including is published by the coaching, access to capital, technical and business resources, New Jersey Biotechnology and Life Sciences Coalition. networking opportunities, and flexible office or laboratory space. August 2010

973-242-3515 www.njbin.com

Utilities Energy Telecommunications/Cable Atlantic City Electric • www.atlanticcityelectric.com AT&T • www.att.com JCP&L/First Energy Corporation • www.firstenergycorp.com Cablevision of NJ • www.cablevision.com PSE&G • www.locationNJ.com Comcast • www.comcast.com Verizon • www.verizon.com/nj NJ Business Resources

28 New Jersey Discovery AT&T Labs Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. The Coriell Institute for 180 Park Avenue Route 206 and Province Line Road Medical Research Florham Park, NJ 07932 P.O. Box 4000 403 Haddon Avenue Princeton, NJ 08543 Camden, NJ 08103 Area of Specialization Computing & Communications Foundations , Area of Specialization Area of Specialization Networking & Software Systems, Information Pharmaceuticals research Personalized Medicine, Stem Cell Research, & Intelligent Systems Society & Technology Genotyping and Microarray, Genetic James M. Cornelius, Chairman Counseling, Cell Culture Laboratories, Cell Dave Belanger, AT&T Labs Elliot Sigal, MD, PhD, EVP & Repositories, Molecular Biology, Nucleic Acids Chief Scientist, and the VP of Information CSO, President R&D Biochemistry. & Software Systems Research 609-252-4000/ 973-360-8000 www.bms.com Michael F. Christman, Ph.D., President, CEO www.research.att.com 856-966-7377 www.coriell.org

The Cancer Institute of New Jersey Avaya Labs 195 Little Albany Street 233 Mt. Airy Road New Brunswick, NJ 08901 CRI Worldwide, LLC Basking Ridge, NJ 07920 16000 Horizon Way Area of Specialization Suite 100 Area of Specialization Basic, clinical and translational cancer research Mt. Laurel, NJ 08054 Collaborative Applications Research, Data Analysis Research, IP Communications Robert DiPaola, MD, Director, CINJ, RWJMS Area of Specialization Research, Multimedia Technologies Edmund Lattime, PhD, Deputy Director, CINJ CRI is adept at conducting full service clinical Research, Networked Systems Research, and Professor of Surgery and Molecular trials for large and mid size pharma and SoftwareTechnology Research, Dialogue Genetics, Microbiology and Immunology biotech companies, and we are equally Systems Research 732-235-2465 comfortable partnering with clinical research www.cinj.org organizations (CROs) to handle any subset Ravi Sethi, President of the clinical trial process. CRI areas of Avaya Labs Research expertise include inpatient and outpatient 1-866-GO-AVAYA clinical trials ranging from Phase I to IV www.research.avayalabs.com The Cooperative Institute with both healthy subjects and disease-state for Climate Science populations. CRI has extensive clinical trial CICS, Princeton University experience with pediatric, adolescent, adult Forrestal Campus and elderly subjects. Bell Labs - Alcatel-Lucent Sayre Hall 600 Mountain Avenue, 300 Forrestal Road Dr. Howard Hassman, CSO Murray Hill, NJ 07974 Princeton, NJ 08540 856-533-5020 www.cnsresearchinstitute.com Area of Specialization Area of Specialization Computing Technologies, Physical (CICS) plays a central role in fulfilling the Technologies, Networks and Networking, demand for basic and applied research on Optical Networks, Wireless Networks, climate variability and change, environmental Enzon Pharmaceuticals Inc. Access Networks, Service Infrastructure, and impacts, mitigation options and response 685 Route 202/206 Applications strategies, as well as training future Bridgewater, NJ 08807 scientists in these areas and disseminating Alice E. White, PhD, VP Bell Labs research results to policy makers, public Area of Specialization North America school teachers, business leaders, and the Oncology 908-582-2506/ general public. Ongoing research is divided www.alcatel-lucent.com among the following three integrated Ralph del Campo, COO themes: Earth System Modeling & Analysis, Ivan Horak, President R&D & CSO Data Assimilation, Earth System modeling 908-541-8600 Applications. www.enzon.com

Jorge L. Sarmiento, Ph.D., Director Geoffrey K. Vallis, Ph.D., Associate Director 609-258-6047 www.princeton.edu/cics Research Centers

New Jersey Discovery Hackensack University Medical Center The Meadowlands Environmental Area of Specialization 30 Prospect Avenue Research Institute A nationally leading resource in biomaterials and Hackensack, NJ 07601 One DeKorte Park Plaza implant science; developing technologies that enable Lyndhurst, NJ 07071 “regenerative medicine” – a fundamentally new Area of Specialization approach to the treatment of aging, disease, and Fifty clinical researchers with 462 active clinical Area of Specialization trauma-related tissue loss. studies, eight basic and translational scientists with The Meadowlands Environmental Research Institute nine federally funded grants. Areas of research (MERI) serves as the scientific and technological Joachim Kohn, Ph.D., Director include: adult and pediatric oncology, liver and arm of the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission Carole Kantor, M.D., Associate Director kidney metabolism, infectious disease, hematopoietic (NJMC). MERI ‘s scientists monitor environmental 732-445-0488 stem cell transplantation, immunology, anatomy, conditions, conduct research and develop and apply www.njbiomaterials.org cardiology, and adult and pediatric rheumatology. technology to address the environmental problems of the Hackensack Meadowlands District. Robert C. Garrett, President & CEO Robert Korngold, PhD, Chairman, Dr. Francisco Artigas, MERI Director The New Jersey Neuroscience Institute Department of Research 201-460-1700 JFK Medical Center 201-996-3760 meri.njmeadowlands.gov 65 James Street www.humc.com Edison, NJ 08818

Area of Specialization Merck Research Labs Rahway The New Jersey Neuroscience Institute conducts Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. 126 E. Lincoln Avenue research into the normal development and function 340 Kingsland Street PO Box 2000 of the nervous system, pathologies that disturb its Nutley, NJ 07110 Rahway, NJ 07065 function, and methods by which we may better diagnose, treat and prevent neurological disorders Area of Specialization Area of Specialization in the future. This research is performed in the newly Oncology, metabolic research, inflammation, central We focus our research on several key therapeutic constructed research laboratories within the New nervous system and virology areas, including: Vaccines, Cardiovascular, Diabetes Jersey Neuroscience Institute at JFK Medical Center. and Obesity, Bone, Respiratory, Immunology, Ivor Macleod, VP, CFO, and Site Head Nutley and Dermatology, Infectious Disease, Oncology, Martin S. Gizzi, MD, PhD, Professor and Chair Nader Fotouhi, PhD, VP Discovery Chemistry Neurosciences and Ophthalmology, Women’s Health 732-321-7010 973-235-5000 and Endocrine. www.njneuro.org www.roche-nutley.com Dr. Richard Tillyer, SVP of Discovery 732-594-4000 www.merck.com/research/home.html Novartis Pharmaceuticals Institute for Advanced Study 1 Health Plaza Einstein Drive East Hanover, NJ 07936 Princeton, NJ 08540 NEC Laboratories America, Inc. Area of Specialization Area of Specialization 4 Independence Way, Suite 200 Pharmaceuticals Theoretical research in the sciences and humanities Princeton, NJ 08540 Andy Wyss, Head of Pharma NA & President Dr. Peter Goddard, Director Area of Specialization of Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation 609-734-8000 Information Analysis & Data Management, Broadband Ronald Califre, SVP, Head of R & D www.ias.edu and Mobile Networks, Robust and Secure Systems 888-644-8585 Machine Learning, Systems Technology, www.pharma.us.novartis.com Quantum IT Lundbeck Research USA 609-520-1555 215 College Road www.nec-labs.com Picatinny Arsenal Paramus, NJ 07652 171 Buffington Road Picatinny Arsenal, NJ 07806 Area of Specialization Drug discovery for diseases of the central nervous Area of Specialization system The New Jersey Center for Biomaterials, Rutgers, the State University Armament research Dr. Stevin Zorn, EVP R&D 145 Bevier Road Dr. Joseph Lannon, Director ARDEC 201-261-1331 Piscataway, NJ 08854 973-724-4021 www.lundbeckresearch.us www.pica.army.mil

30 New Jersey Discovery Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Sarnoff Corporation The Stem Cell Institute of James Forrestal Campus, P.O. Box 451 201 Washington Road, P.O. Box 5300 New Jersey, Essex Princeton, NJ 08543 Princeton, NJ 08543 Area of Specialization Area of Specialization Area of Specialization UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Fusion energy and plasma science Computer vision/video processing, imaging and Rutgers, The State University of New and sensing devices, ICs, lasers, digital video, Jersey have jointly established The Stem Cell Stewart Prager, PhD, Director biometric identification Institute of New Jersey. The mission of the Michael Zarnstorff, PhD, Principal Institute is to carry out research, training, and Research Physicist Mark A. Clifton, Acting President & CEO clinical studies on the application of stem cells 609-243-2000 609-734-2000 to the treatment and cure of human disease. www.pppl.gov www.sarnoff.com Joseph R. Bertino, MD, Interim Director www.rwjms.umdnj.edu/scinj

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