KENNEDY, KERRY ANNOUNCE $9.9 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 50 grantees at seventeen biomedical research and research training institutions in Massachusetts have been awarded a total of $9,902,161 in federal funding. The funds come from the National Institute of Health through a program in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to support biomedical research projects that will stimulate the economy, create or retain jobs, increase student-teacher training opportunities in all aspects of biomedical research, and make significant scientific progress in the next two years.
Senator Kennedy said, “I commend these outstanding research institutions in our Commonwealth for their success in obtaining this well-deserved funding. Their innovative research in biomedicine is vital to the health care and security of our nation.”
“These investments to biomedical research facilities across Massachusetts will save lives, create jobs and ensure that our state remains a world leader in medical technology. I'm incredibly pleased that the NIH has once again recognized the cutting edge work being done by so many of Massachusetts' medical institutions,” 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:
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, MA
Student/Teacher Training Opportunities, $50,510
Studies on the Apoptosis Inducing Factor in Cardiac Apoptosis, $519,223
Studies on Innate Immune Mechanisms of Motor Neuron Injuries, $255,000
Studies on Purinergic Thromboregulation, $737,500
Studies on Thrombospondin 4 A1, $711,148
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA
Studies on Molecular and Informatics Methods for Whole-Genome Mutational Profiling,
$195,625
Boston University
Boston, MA
Student/Teacher Training Opportunities, $56,550
Student/Teacher Training Opportunities, $22,146
Student/Teacher Training Opportunities, $16,900
Student/Teacher Training Opportunities, $8,125
Studies on the Dual Role of IL-16 in Dysregulated Growth of CTCL Cells, $357,577
Studies on the Effects of Mechanical Forces on Lung Injury and Repair, $496,539
Boston Biomedical Research Institute
Watertown, MA
Student/Teacher Training Opportunities, $11,774
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA
Student/Teacher Training Opportunities, $17,453
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Boston, MA
Student/Teacher Training Opportunities, $37,407
Student/Teacher Training Opportunities, $25,597
Student/Teacher Training Opportunities, $24,017
Student/Teacher Training Opportunities, $15,307
Studies on Early Growth Response Protein-1, $500,653
Studies on the Role and Mechanism of Negative Costimulatory Pathways in Experimental
Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis, $443,333
Children’s Hospital Boston
Boston, MA
Student/Teacher Training Opportunities, $22,848
Student/Teacher Training Opportunities, $21,555
Studies on Circuit-based Therapy for Rett Syndrome, $255,750
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, MA
Student/Teacher Training Opportunities, $47,282
Forsyth Institute
Boston, MA
Student/Teacher Training Opportunities, $13,763
Student/Teacher Training Opportunities, $7,292
Harvard University
Boston, MA
Student/Teacher Training Opportunities, $30,407
Student/Teacher Training Opportunities, $11,267
Studies on the Association of Telomere Length with Colorectal Cancer and Adenoma, $81,750
Studies on the Inhibition of T-Cell Responses by Bacteria, $417,059
Studies on the Regulation of Chronic Viral Infection by Co-inhibitory Pathways, $422,938
Studies on the Plasticity in Airway Smooth Muscles, $500,103
Hearthstone Alzheimer Care, LTD.
Woburn, MA
Student/Teacher Training Opportunities, $6,721
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Boston, MA
Student/Teacher Training Opportunities, $18,910
Student/Teacher Training Opportunities, $17,309
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA
Student/Teacher Training Opportunities, $44,379
Student/Teacher Training Opportunities, $19,332
Studies on the LPA Pathway in Lung Fibrosis, $465,876
Studies on the In Vivo Profiling of Glial and Neuronal Activities in Psychostimulant Abuse,
$598,441
Studies on How TorsinA Influences GABA Neuron Migration and Dopamine Neuron
development, $265,000
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
Student/Teacher Training Opportunities, $39,019
Studies on the Rational Design of a Cardiac Tissue Engineering Scaffold, $834,634
Studies on the Role of Glycocalyx in Mechanotransduction, $476,937
Tufts Medical Center
Boston, MA
Student/Teacher Training Opportunities, $65,190
Student/Teacher Training Opportunities, $38,160
Student/Teacher Training Opportunities, $15,900
Studies on the Development of a Multivalent Vaccine for Mouse Reservoirs of Deer Tick
Pathogens, $322,000
Studies on the Role of Ndy1 in Epigenetic Gene Slicing and Stem Cell Biology, $322,336
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Cambridge, MA
Student/Teacher Training Opportunities, $8,109
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Worcester, MA
Student/Teacher Training Opportunities, $9,510
