The New York State Economic Recovery and Investment Cabinet has approved four categories of funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act — three from the National Institutes for Health, one from the Department of Energy — as eligible for additional state money equal to 10 percent of the federal award.

A total 59,948 biopharma and med device jobs were based in the Garden State in 2008, according to a recent report — down more than 2 percent from 61,347 employees a year earlier. However, jobs attributable to indirect economic effects from life science firms rose by almost 7 percent in that time.

PTRP's focus has shifted from recruiting new life-sci employers to fill existing space, to carrying out the extensive infrastructure projects needed for the research park to grow over the next generation.

Asterand, TechTown, Skanska, Nemours Children's Hospital, Dendreon, BioMed Realty Trust, South Weymouth (Mass.) Naval Air Station Redevelopment, Stanford University School of Medicine— Silvio O. Conte Center for Neuroscience Research, University of York Centre of Excellence in Mass Spectrometry, Albany Molecular Research, Federation of Asian Biotech Associations

The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center will see its budget cut from $15 million to $10 million under a $27.4 billion spending plan approved by state lawmakers Friday, and awaiting the signature of Gov. Deval Patrick, who signed the life-sci act into law on June 16, 2008.