Newark, NJ - The New Jersey Innovation Institute's Healthcare iLab is working with Osler Health to improve quality of care, streamline delivery and substantially reduce health care costs. Part of the New Jersey Institute of Technology, NJITT is working with the Hasbrouch Heights-based physician network to prepare more than 50 physicians to understand and work in the new system.

Washington, DC - Writing in the National Journal, Anthony Cicatiello, president of the Research & Development Council of New Jersey, and David Hodges, director of the Governor's STEM Scholars, write that New Jersey - the state that gave the world the light bulb, the silicon transistor, and the antibiotic streptomycin - is working now to lead the way again.

New Brunswick, NJ - Rob Forman and Carl Blesch report that Rutgers is one of seven institutions in the country selected by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to receive this year's BEST Award - a $2 million grant designed to expose many of the university's most promising biomedical sciences graduate trainees to career opportunities that go beyond the academic path that they have traditionally taken.