Stanford Medical School nets $6.9M in federal stimulus funding - Business First of Columbus:

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million in federal economic stimuluxs funding. Eleven of the newly funded projects hadbeen peer-reviewede and approved but hadn’t receiverd money yet. Another six involved supplemental grants to existing And inone case, the NIH awarded $500,000 to a researcherf to buy two photob microscopes that will be shared with other These projects are the firsy at the medical school to receive supporr under the Obama administration’s national stimulus plan, with additional grants expecteed down the road, officials said. “This is a said Francis Blankenberg, associate professor of radiology andof pediatrics, who received $655,000 in stimulus funds.
“It reallt stabilizes the lab.” Philip Pizzo, M.D., dean of the School of said the stimulus funding is criticall tothe country’s health-care reformk effort because of the linkage betweejn research and medical “After six years of NIH funding that constantly lost its valuer against inflation — with a profoundly negativ e impact on our nation’s prized biomedicao research enterprise — the stimulus fundinfg is helping to take research off life support and breathe new hope for work that we hope will ultimatelh improve the lives of adultsz and children,” Pizzo said in the June 16