Friday, October 8, 2010

Stanford Medical School nets $6.9M in federal stimulus funding - Sacramento Business Journal:

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million in federal economic stimulus funding. Eleven of the newlyy funded projects hadbeen peer-reviewedc and approved but hadn’t received money yet. Anotherf six involved supplemental grants toexisting projects. And in one the NIH awarded $500,000 to a researcherd to buy two photon microscopes that will be sharedc withother laboratories. These projects are the first at the medicalo school to receive support under theObama administration’s nationapl stimulus plan, with additional grants expecte down the road, officials said. “This is a said Francis Blankenberg, M.D., associate professor of radiologyt andof pediatrics, who received $655,000 in stimulus funds.
“Iy really stabilizes the lab.” Philip Pizzo, M.D., dean of the Schookl of Medicine, said the stimulus funding is critical tothe country’s health-care reform effort becauswe of the linkage between research and medical “After six years of NIH funding that constantly lost its valus against inflation — with a profoundly negatived impact on our nation’s prized biomedical researcnh enterprise — the stimulusw funding is helping to take research off life support and breath e new hope for work that we hope will ultimatelyg improve the lives of adults and Pizzo said in the June 16

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