NJ Commission on Brain Injury Research Awards Grants for Research

On May 8, 2015

New Jersey Health Commissioner Mary O’Dowd announced today more than $6.3 million in grants for scientific research to develop treatments and cures for disabilities associated with traumatic brain injury. These grant awards are approved by the New Jersey Commission on Brain Injury Research.

In New Jersey, approximately 175,000 New Jersey residents suffer from traumatic injuries that damage the brain, and 12,000 new injuries occur each year that require inpatient or outpatient treatment. The economic consequences of physical disabilities due to traumatic brain injury are enormous.

“These grants will advance the assessment and treatment of traumatic brain injury as researchers translate their studies into improved outcomes for patients,” said Commissioner O’Dowd.

Since 2007, the New Jersey Commission on Brain Injury Research has awarded more than $31 million to individual scientists at various academic and research institutions and has approved 77 separate scientific research projects that focus on effective treatments and cures for the disabilities associated with traumatic brain injury. In 2015, fifty-one applicants competed for available funds.

A wide range of grant opportunities are offered by the Commission including: Individual Research Grants; Post-Doctoral and Graduate Fellowships; Pilot Research Grants, Programmatic Multi-Investigator Research Grants, and Brain Injury Core Facility Grants.

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