UMass Lowell awarded $1M life sciences grants

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University of Massachusetts Lowell was awarded more than $1 million in a pair of grants from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center. The grants are to be used for the hiring of additional faculty and for life sciences research.

The first grant has the school receiving $750,000 over a three-year period to hire a new faculty member to add to the research being performed at the Massachusetts Biomanufacturing Center, the university stated. The center collaborates with life sciences manufacturers and suppliers in the state.

The grants are meant to bring highly talented researchers from across the nation to Massachusetts. Other universities receiving the faculty grant included Boston University, Harvard Medical School, MIT and UMass Amherst.

The second grant, a New Investigator Award, was given to UMass Lowell’s Xingwei Wang, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering working on tiny bio-sensing probes to detect viruses and bacteria. She will receive a grant of $300,000 over three years to continue the project.

The grants are the first major actions by the agency since Gov. Deval Patrick signed a $1 billion stimulus bill for life sciences into law in June.

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