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million in research funding through federalp stimulusgrant dollars. The funding, announced by memberas of the Western New Yorkcongressional delegation, is from the comews through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Grantx include: • $356,346 for a Roswell researcgh project on overcoming therapy resistance forlymphoma patients; • $145,3998 for a Roswell study that lookz at race and patterns of how parents navigate the healty care community after a child is diagnosed with • $335,208 for Roswell researchers to study of biomarkers in cancerd prognosis, progression and metastasis; • $297,488 for a Roswellp study on allergic airway inflammation and drug development; • $191,544r for a study at UB that testse whether patient race or gender affecf immunosuppression drug responses in kidneu transplant recipients; • $20,478 to UB for studenyt and/or teacher summer research at NIH fundes labs.
Candace Johnson, Roswell’s deputy directotr and senior vice president fortranslational research, says the institutionj is especially excited that many of these grantzs were previously submitted and just missed the due in part to stagnant federal fundinf to the NIH budget. Withouf the additional stimulus dollars, these researchers would likelyh not havebeen funded. “Th e regular grants are still being fundedc from the regular pot of but these areadditional awards. It’s fantastic,” she says. “Everyonre is so hopeful.
Hopefully we can get science back on Johnson expects to hear about additional grant awards that have been provisionally as well as grant requests have been submittes in the past several weeks specifically for the stimulus The Recovery Actincludes $10.4 billion for the National Institutez of Health, including $8.2 billiomn for scientific research priorities. In April, the two organizations receivexd acombined $2.
2 million in stimulus grants for research and technology