The Impact of Rutgers Research
Rutgers research and innovation impacts our lives and the world around us. Every day, we accelerate solutions that safeguard our land and oceans, advance health and wellness, and modernize infrastructure and agriculture.
After losing family members to chronic conditions, including his father, Ilker Hacihaliloglu decided something needed to be done to ensure that preventable diseases are discovered early rather than too late. His innovation, developed at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, became the company PONS, which seeks to give families “the precious gift of time.”
Jazz artist Stefon Harris did something no one’s done before: create an app that makes music as unpredictable as a jazz solo. After 13 years of research, Harris, a Rutgers-Newark professor of music, invented Harmony Cloud, an AI-powered software platform he developed to help musicians practice the art of not knowing what comes next.
In laboratories and greenhouses at Rutgers University-New Brunswick – alongside collaborators at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, University of Florida, and Bar-Ilan University – scientists are advancing plant breeding innovations to protect one of the world’s most widely used herbs: basil.