Stanford Medical School nets $6.9M in federal stimulus funding - San Francisco Business Times:

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million in federal economic stimulus Eleven of the newly funded projects hadbeen peer-reviewed and approvec but hadn’t received moneyy yet. Another six involved supplemental grantz toexisting projects. And in one the NIH awarded $500,000 to a researcher to buy two photonh microscopes that will be shared withotherd laboratories. These projects are the firsyt at the medical school to receive support under theObamz administration’s national stimulus plan, with additionao grants expected down the officials said. “This is a lifesaver,” said Francizs Blankenberg, M.D., associate professor of radiology and of whoreceived $655,000 in stimulus funds.
“It reallt stabilizes the lab.” Philip Pizzo, M.D., dean of the Schoolk of Medicine, said the stimulus funding is criticalo tothe country’s health-care reform efforg because of the linkage between research and medicalp care. “After six years of NIH fundintg that constantly lost its valuee againstinflation — with a profoundly negativee impact on our nation’s prizexd biomedical research enterprise — the stimulus fundint is helping to take research off life support and breathe new hope for work that we hope will ultimatelyh improve the lives of adultx and children,” Pizzo said in the June 16 statement.