Pallone Announces Federal Research Grants for Rutgers

Washington, DC - Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) announced that Rutgers University has been awarded two National Science Foundation (NSF) grants totaling nearly $900,000.

"I am extremely proud that Rutgers has distinguished itself as leading research institution," Pallone said. "These funds will benefit not just the University, but our entire community, by allowing Rutgers to work on critical issues that affect us all."

The projects are:

"CHS: Medium: Collaborative Research: Scalable Integration of Data-Driven and Model-Based Methods for Large Vocabulary Sign Recognition and Search" - $689,999

http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1763523

"PFI-TT: Development of a Celegans-based Technology to Enhance the Drug Discovery Process and to Predict Preclinical Efficiency" - $200,000

http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1826496