Child Heath Institute of New Jersey

The Child Heath Institute of New Jersey (CHINJ) was established in 1998 by the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School with the mission to advance basic science knowledge of vertebrate development and growth, and mechanisms of human diseases. The CHINJ is part of a larger biomedical research program that includes the neighboring Bristol-Myers Squibb Children's Hospital, Cancer Institute of New Jersey and the soon-to-be-established Cardiovascular Institute of New Jersey and Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey. Completed in September 2005, the CHINJ building is located in the New Brunswick campus and includes 40,000 sq. ft. of open laboratory design and office space and a 25,000 sq. ft. mouse barrier facility, in addition to core laboratories for mouse gene targeting and transgenesis, histology/pathology, imaging, and microarray analysis. The Institute is in the process of recruiting world-class investigators who will be studying basic and translational aspects of childhood diseases including immunity, autoimmunity and inflammation, hematopoiesis and stem cells, infectious diseases and cancer (see Faculty recruitment for more information).