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Biomedical Boon

Sep 10, 2009

The Boston Globe reports that the US stimulus funds has been a good for Massachusetts' biomedical sector. The commonwealth will be receiving $178 million, second only to California's $244 million. According to the Globe:

While the stimulus funds are dwarfed by what Massachusetts researchers get annually from the NIH — $2.25 billion last year — federal funding for biomedical research has been flat for most of this decade, so the new money is having a significant effect at research universities, teaching hospitals, and private labs.

NPR's Health Blog adds that ARRA far-reaching effectis having a . At the University of Guam "a $79,000 stimulus grant to the biology department will allow the purchase of a desktop scanning electron microscope."

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