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NJII Sale of BioCentriq

Tuesday, May 17th, 2022
Dear NJIT Community Members, I want to share with you a significant achievement for NJIT/NJII. As announced in this press release, NJII has sold BioCentriq for $73 million. BioCentriq was founded based upon NJIT's strengths in life sciences and engineering and has evol...

2022 Hashimoto Prize Winner - Shihab Hafiz

Tuesday, May 17th, 2022
Shihab Bin Hafiz was born in Bogura, Bangladesh. He received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET) in July 2014. He completed his Master of Science in Nanoengineering at North Carolina Agricultural &a...

NJIT's Class of 2022 Urged to Seize the Opportunities Presented by Crises

Tuesday, May 17th, 2022
Crisis presents opportunity, and given the pandemic, war in Ukraine, structural racism, climate change and questions around the world’s supply of energy, food and water, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute President Shirley Ann Jackson called on the Class of 2022 at New Jersey Institute of Technology t...

Pradnya Desai Awarded in Startup Competition, Off to Microsoft

Tuesday, May 17th, 2022
Pradnya Desai, a senior computer science major, made it her mission to accomplish as much as possible during her four years at NJIT, amassing an impressive resume that includes multiple awards and recognitions for her work combining technological invention with a desire to positively affect  so...

Senior Success: Sreya Sanyal Is Off to Become an NIH Researcher

Monday, May 16th, 2022
Sreya Sanyal ’22 is right where she wants to be in the fight against cancer — at the cutting-edge of medical research. She’ll soon be using the breakthrough gene-editing technology CRISPR-Cas9, often described as “genetic scissors”, to study human disease as a post baccalaureate researcher with the ...

New Jersey Innovation Institute Announces Sale of its Subsidiary, BioCentriq, for $73 Million

Monday, May 16th, 2022
The New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII) announced on May 16, 2022, the sale of its subsidiary, BioCentriq Inc., to GC corp. for $73 million. BioCentriq manufactures autologous and allogeneic cell therapies and gene therapies and specializes in viral vector production, cell and viral banking, and ...

David Marcano Named to COSIDA Academic All-District Team

Monday, May 16th, 2022
David Marcano, a graduate student on the NJIT baseball team was named COSIDA Academic All-District II, it was announced on Thursday. Marcano, the team's shortstop who has played in and started 41 of 42 games this season, leads the Highlanders (21-21) in batting average (.333), while ranking second ...

NJIT Ranked No. 14 Nationally in Money's 2022 List of 'Best Colleges'

Monday, May 16th, 2022
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is ranked No. 14 overall in the United States by Money in their list of Best Colleges for 2022. Money evaluated more than 600 institutions focusing on 24 factors in three main categories that surveys have shown are the most important to students: ...

Walking with Paralysis

Friday, May 13th, 2022
Strapped into an exoskeleton, Damyane Evely strode heavily back and forth across a 15-foot platform, taking an occasional peek at a monitor on the wall to survey his progress — and to silently marvel. It had been more than 15 years since his spinal cord was compressed in a motorcycle accident, landi...

NJIT Business Major Charis Hwang Lines Up PwC Role - But First, a Master's

Friday, May 13th, 2022
Charis Hwang packed a lot into her four years studying business at New Jersey Institute of Technology, including three internships and a cooperative educational experience. That thick undergraduate resumé may explain why even before completing an accelerated master’s program, she landed a job with ...