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Congressman Higgins Announces Over $2.2 Million in Recovery Act Funding for Roswell & UB
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Grants Will Allow for New Research and Technology Initiatives on Buffalo’s Medical Campus
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Today, Congressman Brian Higgins (NY-27) announced that the State University of New York at Buffalo (UB) and Roswell Park Cancer Institute have been awarded over $2.2 million in Recovery Act funding for new research and technology initiatives in Western New York.
“This is great news on both science and economic fronts,” said Higgins, a member of the Congressional Cancer Caucus. “This investment in Western New York’s leading research industries will lead to new treatments and tools in the fight of the most devastating diseases and at the same time it provides a boost to our local, growing biomedical industry.”
The University at Buffalo will receive $2 million for PET/CT for Multidimensional Translational Cardiovascular Research. The grant will greatly expand research in advanced imaging at UB and facilitate the development and application of novel cardiovascular molecular imaging probes.
Roswell Park Cancer Institute has been awarded $216,662. Roswell’s funding will be used to investigate in model systems of lung, head and neck and colon cancer, the role of selenium in an oxygen dependent gene regulation pathway, potentially leading to better disease management.
Congressman Higgins has fought long and hard for increased funding to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and he wrote to Speaker Pelosi last September urging for NIH funding in the Recovery Act bill because it has a stimulative effect on Western New York’s economy.
In a letter sent to Congressional leaders on September 18, 2008 from Higgins and other members of Congress they stressed, “Increasing funding for the NIH this year would also provide a necessary kickstart to our country’s innovation industries, providing economic stimulus that lasts well into the future. Americans understand that more research opportunities into all sorts of diseases will lead to better treatment and cures for the maladies they face…and create America’s next generation of small, entrepreneurial biotechnology firms.”
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