RWJ grants $12 M to cancer institute

   The Plainsboro-based Robert Wood Johnson Foundation announced it will make a $12 millin grant to the Cancer Institute of New Jersey Foundation, based in Hamilton, for a four-year project aimed at growing the CINJ’s research areas of cancer prevention, control and population science at CINJ.
   Joseph R. Bertino, M.D., interim director and chief scientific officer at CINJ and university professor of medicine and pharmacology at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, notes, “We are committed to improving the current knowledge base for promoting overall reductions in cancer incidence. This award will allow us to better understand who among the general public are at a greater risk of getting cancer and to get this information out to physicians and family practices.”
   Nearly 80,000 patient visits to CINJ are expected next year and an annual figure of 100,000 patient visits is expected by the end of the four-year grant period. Dr. Bertino says it is those increasing numbers that make it even more critical to dedicate concentrated resources toward such study.