HINJ Presents Recognition Award to New Jersey STEM Pathways Network
HINJ Board of Trustees Chair Alex Kelly, who is executive vice president, Corporate Affairs, Allergan, presented the 2019 Award for Excellence in STEM Education to the New Jersey STEM Pathways Network at its quarterly meeting on Sept. 26 in Monroe Twp. HINJ President and CEO Dean J. Paranicas made opening remarks and introduced Mr. Kelly. […]
Repeal the Medical Device Excise Tax Before it Causes More Harm
HINJ joined MDMA, AdvaMed, MITA and a broad coalition of medical innovators, physician inventors, patient groups in sending a letter to Congress Sept. 24 urging them to permanently repeal the medical device excise tax to the innovation ecosystem. While the tax was in place from 2013 through 2015, thousands of good paying jobs were lost, […]
HINJ Statement on H.R. 3, the Drug Pricing Proposal in Congress
This legislation poses the danger of decimating New Jersey’s workforce and economy. New Brunswick, Sept. 20, 2019 ― HealthCare Institute of New Jersey (HINJ) President and Chief Executive Officer Dean J. Paranicas today issued the following statement about H.R. 3: “The HealthCare Institute of New Jersey (HINJ) has very serious concerns with H.R. 3, the […]
HINJ joins Research!America
The alliance’s members include major universities such as Rutgers. New Brunswick, Sept. 9, 2019 ― The HealthCare Institute of New Jersey (HINJ) has joined Research!America, the highly regarded, nonprofit advocacy alliance. Research!America is the largest nonprofit public education and advocacy alliance in the United States working to elevate the priority of research to improve health. […]
HINJ President & CEO Named to NJBIZ Health Care Power 50
Multinational pharmaceutical companies, fast-growing life science startups, diversified provider systems and other entities involved in the manufacture, delivery and practice of medicine employ hundreds of thousands of New Jerseyans and generate billions of dollars in revenue every year. Obviously, the health care industry plays an indispensable role in the state’s economy. Read more here.
HINJ President & CEO Named to NJBIZ Power 100
From NJBIZ: Reading a really good list is fun. Compiling a really good list … not so much. It’s a lot of work. Indeed, a lot of work went into compiling the NJBIZ Power 100 list. The entire editorial staff was involved, sharing insights gleaned from daily reporting and offering analysis of who the important […]
New Jersey Has All the Ingredients to Grow an Innovation Economy
“An innovation economy is driven by a vibrant innovation ecosystem sustained by a state’s public, private and academic sectors,” says Dean Paranicas, president and CEO of the Healthcare Institute of New Jersey. “As we’ve seen elsewhere in California, Massachusetts and North Carolina, public and private research universities – bolstered by their state governments – are […]
NJBIZ: Why the Garden State continues to attract life science companies
The state’s century-plus legacy as “the medicine chest of the world” and its continuing commitment to innovation mean New Jersey is likely to remain a life sciences powerhouse, said Dean J. Paranicas, CEO of the HealthCare Institute of New Jersey, HINJ, a trade association for the state’s research-based biopharmaceutical and medical technology industry. “New Jersey […]
It’s Never Too Early to Introduce Students to STEM Says BMS Scientist, Rutgers Grad
The following Q&A and background was provided to HINJ by our friends at S2S. Elizabeth Galella, a senior research scientist at Bristol-Myers Squibb, volunteers her time to teach and inspire New Jersey children through Students 2 Science Inc. (S2S), a non-profit model program which operates laboratories in Newark and East Hanover and provides hands-on, authentic STEM […]
Sanofi Provides STEM Education Programs to Somerset County Students
Building upon the Sanofi commitment to supporting communities where it operates, and specifically enhancing Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education opportunities for young people, Sanofi is providing more than $80,000 in hands-on science programs to public school students in Somerset County. […]