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NIH awards stimulus funds to Marine Biological Laboratory
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The Marine Biological Laboratory reports it has landed more than $800,000 in federal stimulus funds from the National Institutes of Health to recruit researchers specializing in regenerative biology.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grant will be used to recruit two researchers specializing in regenerative biology and medicine. Marine organisms are a focus of MBL studies, especially now that it is possible to decode their genomes, Woods Hole-based MBL said.
MBL’s efforts to establish a regenerative biology initiative have also attracted a $10 million grant from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center to fund renovations to MBL’s Loeb Laboratory. That grant was matched by a $15 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
MBL also announced that the NIH is providing $550,000 for the its Frontiers in Stem Cells and Regeneration training course, designed for young researchers looking for training in research strategies and state-of-the-art approaches in regeneration and regenerative medicine research.
The funding was announced in Woods Hole at a press conference featuring Massachusetts Lt. Governor Tim Murray, Massachusetts Life Sciences Center CEO Susan Windham Bannister and state Rep. Timothy Madden.
Last week, the U.S. Navy gave MBL’s sister organization, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, $5.6 million for engineering services on the Navy’s platform and payload integration department of the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Newport, R.I.
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