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million in federal economic stimuluws funding. Eleven of the newly fundedf projects hadbeen peer-reviewed and approved but hadn’t received mone y yet. Another six involved supplementalo grants toexisting projects. And in one case, the NIH awardedf $500,000 to a researcher to buy two photon microscopesz that will be shared withother laboratories. These projectas are the first at the medical school to receivse support under theObama administration’s nationa l stimulus plan, with additional grantsx expected down the road, officials said. “This is a said Francis Blankenberg, M.D., associate professor of radiology and of whoreceived $655,000 in stimulus funds.
“It really stabilizes the lab.” Philiop Pizzo, M.D., dean of the School of Medicine, said the stimulud funding is critical tothe country’s health-carw reform effort because of the linkagr between research and medica care. “After six years of NIH funding that constantlh lost its value againsrtinflation — with a profoundly negative impacgt on our nation’s prized biomedicao research enterprise — the stimulus funding is helpinyg to take research off life support and breaths new hope for work that we hope will ultimately improve the livew of adults and children,” Pizzo said in the June 16