COVID-19 in New Jersey
Ranking reveals best state to work from home: New Jersey
| ROI-NJ
April 7, 2022WalletHub, which is a leader in the niche industry of creating “best states to …” type of content, has crunched the numbers and determined that New Jersey is the best state to work from home. WalletHub officials said it has used 12 key metrics, ranging from share of workers working from home, internet cost and cybersecurity — as well as …
New Jersey film & television industry prospers following COVID-19 slowdown
| News 12
July 21, 2021The film and television production industry is back on the rise in New Jersey following the COVID-19 slowdown. A backlog in production has now set the scene for more movies and TV shows to be shot in the Garden State. “It’s not just that you have a lot of individual productions, but the phenomenon now is they are showing entirely …
Milestone moment: Newark Working Kitchens to deliver 1 millionth meal today
| ROI-NJ
June 11, 2021A unique win-win program has kept Newark restaurants open while helping to feed those in need. In April 2020 — at a time when the pandemic was taking hold in the state, leaving many to wonder where their next paycheck and their next meal were coming from — Audible announced it was donating $1 million to create Newark Working Kitchens, a unique meal …
10 Years of Choosing New Jersey
| New Jersey Business
May 10, 2021Choose NJ celebrates its first decade and builds on past successes. A highly educated workforce, top notch public education system, strategic location between major economic hubs, the largest East Coast seaport, and a high quality of life? These are just a few of the reasons why New Jersey is often lauded for being an attractive place to locate a business. There …
Sanofi to help manufacture Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, supporting global supply demands
| Press Release
April 26, 2021Sanofi is the only company to leverage its manufacturing capacity and expertise to support three different COVID-19 vaccines to support the global supply of vaccines and help address the pandemic Sanofi to manufacture up to 200 million doses of Moderna’s vaccine in the U.S. starting in September 2021 MEDIA UPDATE – April 26, 2021 Sanofi has entered into an agreement …
Glyde, an NJII startup, gets backing from venture firm that features Bezos, Zuckerberg
ROI-NJ Staff(Newark)
April 19, 2021VentureLink@NJIT, the coworking and incubator space at the New Jersey Innovation Institute on the campus of New Jersey Institute of Technology, houses and supports a number of student-led startups. On Monday, NJII announced one has gained the backing of one of the most notable venture firms in the country. GlydeApp, which provides contactless dining by automating the ordering and payment process for restaurants …
Tevogen Bio Announces Partnership With BioCentriq, New Jersey Innovation Institute’s Pioneering Cell and Gene Therapy Center, to Enhance Tevogen’s Development Capacity of Its Proprietary Targeted T Cell Therapy For COVID-19
| Press Release
March 15, 2021METUCHEN, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Tevogen Bio announces partnership with BioCentriq, a New Jersey based cell and gene therapy development and manufacturing center, to support clinical manufacturing of Tevogen’s investigational COVID-19 treatment. Under the partnership, experts from both entities will collaborate at BioCentriq’s state-of-the art GMP facilities to produce Tevogen’s proprietary COVID-19 targeted T cells. The teams will utilize the processes and technology …
NJ approves film tax breaks for 3 producers who filmed during COVID
| NJBIZ
March 10, 2021The New Jersey Economic Development Authority on March 10 approved some of the few awards for media productions during the pandemic under a lucrative and popular tax break program meant to lure the film and television industry. All three awards combined totaled $1.32 million, according to the Wednesday board agenda. Known formally as the NJ Film and Digital Media Tax Credit Program, …
Rutgers researchers create rapid test (1 hour) that detects coronavirus variants
| ROI-NJ
March 9, 2021Researchers at Rutgers University feel they have developed a time-saving test to help the world in its battle with the variant strains of COVID-19. And they are not charging health care organizations to use it to conduct testing. David Alland, Padmapriya Banada, Soumitesh Chakravorty, Raquel Green and Sukalyani Banik announced Monday that they have designed a new rapid test that can detect …
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