The Hub of Innovation
A new Rutgers Translational Research facility and a new home for the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School will be the centerpieces of the New Jersey Innovation and Technology Hub in New Brunswick. The 10-story, $665 million complex now under construction will revolutionize the delivery of health care and medicine in the state by fostering start-up companies and new technologies. “The project has the potential to be the most meaningful and profound investment this state has ever made in translational research that will take innovation and discovery from the bench to the bedside,” said Rutgers president Jonathan Holloway during an October groundbreaking ceremony that included state dignitaries. The other core partners supporting the Hub, scheduled to open in 2024, are RWJBarnabas Health, Hackensack Meridian Health, the New Jersey Economic Development Authority, the New Brunswick Development Corporation, Princeton University, and Choose NJ, an economic development organization.