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Kevin Casey, Harvard’s senior director of federal and state relations, called the move “disappointing for those of us who have been working for an increase in NIH funding and other basic research and education funding...
...Casey said he was encouraged by the priority given to higher education programs in the proposed appropriations bills and in the stimulus bill proposed this weekend by Senate Democrats that included a $1.2-billion increase in NIH funding...
...recession that decreases tax revenues, it will be very hard to get the kind of funding into science and engineering that is absolutely needed,” said Harvard Provost Steven E. Hyman, who is a member of the Coalition for Life Sciences, which advocates for the NIH budget...
...Though he used money from the NIH New Innovator Award that he won last year, Hochedlinger’s research was not subject to federal embryonic stem cell restrictions because iPS cells are created from skin cells or blood cells instead of from embryos. His work was also funded in part by the Harvard Stem Cell Institute...
...Pioneer and New Innovator programs had 450 and 600 applicants, respectively. Applications were considered by three reviewers, and the top 25 candidates for the Pioneer awards came to NIH for interviews. Final decisions for both programs were made by the NIH advisory committee and NIH Director Elias A. Zerhouni...