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Congressman Brian Higgins (NY-27) announced that researchers at Roswell Park Cancer Institute and the University at Buffalo have been awarded $ 568,066 in grants made available through Recovery Act funding authorized for the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
“These grants will support the amazing research conducted every day right here on Buffalo’s Medical Campus,” said Congressman Higgins.
The recent release of Recovery Act funds includes $73,209 to supplement a research project at Roswell and $494,857 to support two projects through UB.
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.”
The Recovery Act included $10.4 billion for the National Institutes of Health, including $8.2 billion for scientific research priorities.
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