The Child Health Institute will work to improve the health and quality of life of our children, Roukema said. It will be a world-class facility for research into the terrible diseases that threaten infants and children daily. Ultimately, it will find cures that will end needless suffering on the part of the youngest and most helpless members of our society.
Children are our most precious resource.
We must do everything in our power to keep them healthy and safe. This funding will help the Child Health Institute of New Jersey succeed in its mission to discover the causes of many childhood diseases, and more importantly, find new treatments for these diseases. The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey s Robert Wood Johnson Medical School has developed the Child Health Institute as a comprehensive biomedical research center focused on the development, growth and maturation of children. The mission of the institute is to improve health and quality of life for children by fostering scientific research that will produce new discoveries about the cause of childhood diseases and develop new treatments for those diseases. Researchers will direct their efforts toward the prevention and cure of environmental, genetic and cellular diseases of infants and children.