The two foundations have signed a formal affiliation agreement.
New Jersey Health Foundation and Kessler Foundation have signed a formal agreement to support biomedical research, education and patient care programmes together. Both are non-profit outfits.
New Jersey Health Foundation’s focus is on supporting biomedical research and education programmes. To date it has spent in excess of $52m on such health care related programmes in the state of New Jersey. It has a dedicated $1m fund to support research at Rutgers University with individual grants up to $35,000.
Kessler is particularly focused on disability and spends a lot of its resources on research into rehabilitation therapies. Its targeted patients are those suffering from neurological disabilities caused by diseases or by brain and spinal cord injuries.
James Golubieski, president at New Jersey Health Foundation, said: “The experience of New Jersey Health Foundation in the areas of funding research, commercialising intellectual property and forming, funding and managing startup companies, coupled with the exciting, innovative research currently being developed at Kessler Foundation, provides a wide range of partnership opportunities. We are very excited about working together to change the lives of people with disabilities.”
Rodger DeRose, president and chief executive at Kessler Foundation, added: “We foresee numerous opportunities to develop solutions that will foster independence and better quality of life for people with disabilities. This affiliation will enable us to make Kessler Foundation’s scientific advances more widely available to people with physical and cognitive disabilities caused by brain injury, cancer, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury and stroke.”
