The 12-story, 510,000-square-foot Jack & Sheryl Morris Cancer Center in New Brunswick will be a state-of-the-art facility featuring outpatient and inpatient capacity coupled with research laboratories, retail space and ancillary services devoted to patient wellness.

If all goes according to plan, a brand new, state of the art research and technology facility will occupy an empty parcel in the center of downtown in a few years after state and city officials broke ground on the $665 million, 550,000-square-foot New Jersey Innovation and Technology Hub on Oct. 14.

Among other measures, a $2 billion trust will be established to facilitate an efficient resolution of claims.

The center features 220,500 square feet of office, manufacturing and laboratory space, including technology equipped to handle process development and manufacturing of plasmids and adeno-associated virus vectors.

The partnership with Cooper University Health Care and the Rutgers-Camden School of Nursing launched the first phase of a one-stop shop for COVID-19 vaccines and boosters that will be housed at Camden County College Blackwood for the next several months.

The project is a $665 million, 550,000-square-foot medical education and research center. Rutgers and Princeton universities both plan to use the facility, along with Hackensack Meridian Health and Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

Alan Lee brings a depth of experience in academic medicine and customer service to the New Brunswick-based health care system.

The addition of the Pennsylvania provider's seven facilities boosts the Woodbridge-based outpatient orthopedic physical and occupational therapy services company's presence throughout Bucks County.

Jessica Moore will assume her new role on Nov. 1. She most recently served as vice president and CFO for the Janssen Pharmaceutical business.

Dr. Paul Stoffels will depart at the end of the year. His purview saw the establishment of J&J Innovation, or JLABS, which has more than 700 companies incubating today. He described his time at the New Brunswick-based company as "an honor and a privilege."

Ophelia Byers will also serve as associate chief nurse executive for Atlantic Health System. In her new roles she will partner with Trish O’Keefe, senior vice president and chief nurse executive for the organization and president of Morristown Medical Center, to align and support care across all clinical settings.

The nation’s top infectious disease expert pretty much reiterated Gov. Phil Murphy's stance on the holiday: “[E]njoy it, this is the time that children love,” adding that getting the COVID-19 vaccine ahead of the holiday is an “extra degree of protection.”