KENNEDY, KERRY ANNOUNCE $4.2 MILLION IN FEDERAL FUNDS TO MASSACHUSETTS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND RESEARCH TRAINING INSTITUTIONS
BOSTON, MA – Senators Edward M. Kennedy and John F. Kerry announced today that fifteen biomedical research and research training institutions in Massachusetts will receive twenty-five grants from the National Institute of Health totaling $4,263,924, made under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. These federal funds to support biomedical research projects will help stimulate the economy, create or retain jobs, increase student-teacher research opportunities in biomedicine, and make significant scientific progress over the next few years.
Senator Kennedy said, “I commend these outstanding research institutions in our Commonwealth for their success in obtaining this well-deserved funding. By continuing to embark upon innovative research in biomedicine, these institutions are leading the way in finding the treatments and cures of tomorrow.”
“NIH investments save lives, keep jobs here at home, and empower Massachusetts to make more medical advances,” said Senator Kerry. “Once again, I’m incredibly pleased that the NIH has recognized Massachusetts as home to many first class medical institutions and has provided the resources to keep us out front in the medical technology field.” said Senator John Kerry.
The National Institutes of Health currently support scientific research in 3,000 institutions in all fifty states.
For more information on the programs supported by the NIH through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, please see http://grants.nih.gov/recovery/.
The recipients of the grants, the purpose and the amount of the grants are as follows:
McClean Hospital
Belmont, MA
A Study on the Nicotinic Modulation of Methamphetamine’s Behavioral and Neurochemical
Effects, $222,790
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, MA
A Study on the Inhibition of Angiogenesis by Thrombospondin-1, $ 371,633
A Study on Store Operated Calcium Influx in Cells of the Immune System, $425,000
Boston Medical Center
Boston, MA
A Study on the Regulation of HIV Transcription Elongation, $416,152
Boston University
Boston, MA
Student/Teacher Summer Research Opportunities, $16,250
A Study on Aminopeptidases in Antigen Processing, $162,500
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Boston, MA
Student/Teacher Summer Research Opportunities, $97,773
A Study on V3 Loop characterization by Ultradeep Sequencing during CCR5 Antagonist
Therapy, $266,000
Children’s Hospital Boston
Boston, MA
A Study on Increasing the Reliability of Clinical Microarray Data Analysis by Systematic Bia,
$85,416
Harvard University
Boston, MA
A Study on the Human Cytomegalovirus Nuclear Egress: Molecular Mechanisms and Drug
Targeting, $531,766
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Boston, MA
Student/Teacher Summer Research Opportunities, $8,262
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA
A Study on Molecular Physiology of Polycystin-2, $ 348,587
A Study on the Role of Notch Signaling in Regulation of Autophagy in Melanoblasts and
Melanoma, $329,925
Student/Teacher Summer Research Opportunities, $38,672
Student/Teacher Summer Research Opportunities, $23,788
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
Student/Teacher Summer Research Opportunities, $22,512
Northeastern University
Boston, MA
Student/Teacher Summer Research Opportunities, $38,470
Schepens Eye Research Institute
Boston, MA
Student/Teacher Summer Research Opportunities, $23,678
Student/Teacher Summer Research Opportunities, $10,743
Tufts Medical Center
Boston, MA
A Study on the role of Borrelia Integrin binding Proteins in Lyme Arthritis, $350,199
Student/Teacher Summer Research Opportunities, $23,850
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Worcester, MA
A Study on the Regulation of virus-Specific T-Cell Responses by TNF, $245,938
A Study on the Role of MRN in the S-Phase DNA Damage Checkpoint, $137,786
Student/Teacher Summer Research Opportunities, $19,024
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Cambridge, MA
A Study on the Characterization of MHV-68 Virus Host Interactions and CD8 T-Cell Response,
$47,210
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