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...NIH??s approval of the Harvard lines marks the entrance of stem cell research into the same processes of attaining funding as other areas of life science research, according to Daley...
Harvard’s science spokesman B.D. Colen said that the approval of the new stem cell lines signals NIH??s openness to the development and funding of more research that involves the use of stem cells...
...news from Capitol Hill is particularly welcome in Cambridge. Massachusetts, and especially Harvard, received large percentages of the NIH??s allocated funds in earlier years and will likely benefit significantly from this increased funding. The jobs that new grants will create in Massachusetts and at Harvard will also be beneficial to the state’s economy...
...second week of February. Massachusetts, with its myriad research hospitals and universities, is the nation’s largest recipient of NIH funding per capita and is second only to California in overall funding. In 2007, Massachusetts received $2.2 billion in NIH funding—roughly 10 percent of NIH??s $22.8 billion spent on extramural research. Harvard received $1.4 billion, or 60 percent of the state’s allocation. Casey said he believed the stimulus represented a “substantial infusion of funds” for scientific research, and added that the money would have...
...Kahn began studying diabetes in 1970, when he started a fellowship at the NIH??s National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease (NIDDK). When Kahn began his research, it was known that insulin regulated blood sugar by binding to a specific receptor on cells. But Kahn’s lab was the first to discover the mechanism of this activation, which involves the addition of a phosphate molecule to the amino acid tyrosine...