“The NIH grabbed $10 bil­lion of tax­pay­ers’ funds fun­neled through the stim­u­lus bill, and NIH chief Fran­cis Collins says the money was used to save or cre­ate 50,000 research jobs. In many cases, he adds, the extra funds have kept America’s sci­en­tists in Amer­i­can labs.” 

- here’s the story from Bloomberg

From Fierce­Biotech Research [editors@fiercebioresearcher.com]  1/5/10, by John Carroll

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“National net­work­ing pro­vides oppor­tu­ni­ties for sci­en­tists to col­lab­o­rate in new, excit­ing ways to improve abil­i­ties to uncover under­ly­ing path­ways and mech­a­nisms of biol­ogy and to develop new diag­nos­tics, treat­ments and pre­ven­tion strate­gies,” said NCRR Direc­tor Bar­bara Alv­ing, M.D. “The infra­struc­ture cre­ated and imple­mented through these awards has the poten­tial to greatly facil­i­tate the pace of bio­med­ical research nationwide.”

- here’s the NIH release
- check out a list of project part­ner insti­tu­tions here   — besides Har­vard and U of Florida

Read more: http://www.fiercebiotechresearch.com/story/nih-seeds-scientific-networking-projects-27m/2009–11-02?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal#ixzz0bxKR7UYy
 

Also from Fierce­Biotech Research [editors@fiercebioresearcher.com] 11/2/09, by John Carroll