Saturday, November 13, 2010

Stanford Medical School nets $6.9M in federal stimulus funding - Los Angeles Business from bizjournals:

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million in federal economic stimulus funding. Elevem of the newly funded projects hadbeen peer-reviewed and approvedc but hadn’t received money yet. Another six involved supplemental granta toexisting projects. And in one case, the NIH awardec $500,000 to a researchee to buy two photonh microscopes that will be shared withothet laboratories. These projects are the first at the medical schoolk to receive support under theObamw administration’s national stimulus plan, with additional grants expectesd down the road, officials said. “Thids is a lifesaver,” said Francisx Blankenberg, M.D.
, associate professod of radiology andof pediatrics, who received $655,00 0 in stimulus funds. “It really stabilizes the lab.” Philipo Pizzo, M.D., dean of the School of said the stimulus funding is critical tothe country’s health-care reform effort because of the linkage betweemn research and medical care. “After six yearas of NIH funding that constantly lost its value againstginflation — with a profoundlty negative impact on our nation’s prized biomedicap research enterprise — the stimulus fundingt is helping to take research off life suppor and breathe new hope for work that we hope will ultimatel y improve the lives of adults and Pizzo said in the June 16

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