Thank you for visiting our web site and for considering the Public Health Research Institute Center (PHRI) at the New Jersey Medical School - University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) in your philanthropic plans.

PHRI's work could not be more topical or important as diseases like Tuberculosis, HIV, MRSA or other drug resistance infections spread locally and around the globe, and the threat of bioterrorism remains a concern. In addition, PHRI's traditional emphasis on fundamental science enhances opportunities to translate basic discoveries into practical application. PHRI has been fighting infectious diseases for seven decades and will continue to take a major role in the struggles ahead.

PHRI's work contributes new knowledge to the scientific community, and improves the health and well-being of the public.

As a Center of UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, PHRI is relatively small and flexible, often allowing us to take an entrepreneurial approach to address emerging problems. Our scientists have repeatedly demonstrated the ability to pursue new research opportunities and initiate new programs that yield tangible results.

Program Support Gifts
Hospital Infections Program
Newark Student Science Programs
Outreach Education Programs

Research Support Gifts
New Research Initiatives
Equipment Grants
Recruitment Grants
Post-doctoral Fellows Grants

For more information regarding the ways in which your support can advance the work of the Public Health Research Institute Center, please contact:

Elizabeth Ketterlinus, Vice President for Development
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Foundation
973-972-2486
ketterel@umdnj.edu





Many of PHRI's most innovative programs are funded substantially or entirely from private sources.

• PHRI's innovative Hospital Infections Program helps NJ hospitals reduce the spread of hospital-acquired infections. The New Jersey State legislature provided $1 million in seed funding to launch this program, which is targeted to save many lives and many millions of dollars. Further funding, on the order of $1 million per year, is needed to implement all parts of the program and ensure its continuation.
  
  
• PHRI's ongoing Newark Student Science Programs provide Newark's students and teachers with research opportunities and science education workshops. This includes the highly successful Summer High School Research Internship Program, as well as programs currently being planned to extend support to Newark students on a year round basis and to extend the program to junior high and elementary students. Funding of $250,000 per year is being sought to maintain and expand PHRI's Newark Student Science Program.
  
  
• PHRI's Outreach Education Programs bring crucial information to those who are likely to be impacted by emerging infectious disease problems and seek to stimulate national and international action to deal with these problems. In addition to programs for the public, PHRI brings together world-class scientists to discuss research, new discoveries and urgent issues in infectious disease. PHRI's 2003 Science Symposium will focus on important infectious disease problems and related public policy. A conference to explore the problem of the diminishing number of effective antibiotics is in the planning stage.

The majority of PHRI's research is funded by specific research grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). However, there are many research support needs which are not funded by NIH, and a Research Support Gift to PHRI will help ensure that our researchers have the resources they need to continue to work at the highest level. Giving opportunities in this area include:

• PHRI encourages its scientists to pursue New Research Initiatives by providing grants, in the range of $75,000 to $100,000, to be used for research in areas other than a scientist's currently funded work. They frequently succeed in allowing a scientist to develop the data needed to pursue permanent funding from NIH or some other source. Seven of the last twelve New Initiatives Grants have led to subsequent multi-year funding from NIH.
  
  
• State-of-the-art, specialized instrumentation is vital to the research conducted at PHRI. Equipment Grants allow us to ensure that our researchers have what they need to continue to produce high quality research results. Equipment grants generally range from $10,000 to $100,000.
  
  
• As PHRI expands its research faculty, we look to recruit brilliant young investigators who need support as they begin their independent research careers. We also seek to attract leading senior investigators whose extraordinary work complements that of existing PHRI scientists. Recruitment Grants support new investigators in their first 2-3 years at PHRI. Such funding includes transition salary support, equipment and research assistants, which amounts to approximately $500,000 per investigator.
  
  
• Post-doctoral Fellows Grants provide the foundation for researchers who are not quite ready for independent work. The Institute attracts creative post-doctoral researchers who can help develop and expand current research programs while they acquire the training needed to begin their own independent research careers. A grant of $50,000 supports a Post-doctoral fellow for one year.