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million in research funding through federal stimulusgrant dollars. The announced by members of the Westernb New Yorkcongressional delegation, is from the comess through the American Recoverg and Reinvestment Act. Grants • $356,346 for a Roswell research project on overcomingg therapy resistance forlymphoma patients; • $145,399o for a Roswell study that looks at race and patternws of how parents navigate the health care communityt after a child is diagnosed with cancer; $335,208 for Roswell researchers to study of biomarkers in cance prognosis, progression and metastasis; $297,488 for a Roswell study on allergiv airway inflammation and drug • $191,544 for a study at UB that tests whethe r patient race or gendere affect immunosuppression drug responses in kidneuy transplant recipients; • $20,478 to UB for student and/or teacher summer research at NIH fundecd labs.
Candace Johnson, Roswell’s deputy director and seniofr vice president for translational says the institution is especially excite that many of these grants were previouslg submitted and just missefdthe cut-off, due in part to stagnan federal funding to the NIH budget. Withou the additional stimulus dollars, these researchers would likelty not havebeen funded. “The regular grantse are still being funded from the regular potof funding, but theser are additional awards. It’s she says. “Everyone is so hopeful.
Hopefullgy we can get science back on Johnson expects to hear about additional grant awardse that have beenprovisionalluy approved; as well as grant requests have been submittedf in the past several weeks specifically for the stimuluxs funds. The Recovery Act included $10.4 billion for the National Institutesof Health, includint $8.2 billion for scientific research In April, the two organizationws received a combined $2.2 million in stimuluse grants for research and technology initiatives.