Hackensack Meridian Health (HMH) and Stevens Institute of Technology have signed a new agreement to expand their research collaboration, combining clinical expertise and technical innovation to develop next-generation healthcare solutions.
Building on an institutional partnership that began in 2009, the new agreement establishes formal frameworks to coordinate interdisciplinary research between New Jersey’s largest health network and the Hoboken-based technological research university.
The expanded agreement pairs Stevens’ strengths in biomedical engineering, systems science, and artificial intelligence with HMH’s clinical scale and patient care network.
To facilitate ongoing joint studies, the partnership establishes visiting research faculty appointments at both institutions, allowing clinical researchers and engineering faculty to collaborate directly on pressing healthcare challenges, including healthy aging.
“This strategic partnership produces an incredible synergy,” Dr. Ihor Sawczuk, president of Academics, Research and Innovation at Hackensack Meridian Health and founding chair of the HMH Research Institute, said. “These two world-class institutions bring realms of expertise which will accelerate new understanding of what’s possible in critical niches of healthcare.”
The collaboration focuses on creating multidisciplinary teams that bring technical, data-driven engineering approaches directly into clinical care settings.
“Pairing our strength in biomedical engineering, systems science and artificial intelligence with Hackensack Meridian Health’s clinical depth and patient reach is exactly the kind of complementary expertise that will enable us to advance the boundaries of knowledge in the field of medicine,” Edmund Synakowski, Ph.D., vice provost for Research and Innovation at Stevens Institute of Technology, said.
Jennifer Kang-Mieler, Ph.D., director of the Semcer Center for Healthcare Innovation and chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Stevens, highlighted the potential for joint problem-solving: “This expanded partnership creates exciting opportunities to build multidisciplinary teams that bring engineering and clinical expertise together to address complex healthcare challenges, including healthy aging.”
By combining medical research and clinical insight with technical and technological capabilities, both institutions aim to accelerate scientific discoveries into practical clinical applications across the broader healthcare landscape.
