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Keck School Wins $34 Million in Stimulus Funds
By Leslie Ridgeway on October 21, 2009 8:02 AM
Faculty researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of USC have won a total of $34 million in grants as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
The act, which was passed by Congress and signed into law in February by President Obama, is designed to fund research projects that will stimulate the economy and create or retain jobs while potentially making significant scientific progress over the next two years.
Keck School of Medicine leaders noted that the awards represent a surge of federal support for the school.
“Competition for these grants was intense, so the success of our faculty speaks to the quality of our scientific enterprise and the determination of our investigators,” said Keck School dean Carmen A. Puliafito.
Among the grants is a nearly $9 million Grand Opportunity grant awarded to two USC neuroscientists to map how genes are expressed in different regions of the human brain throughout development. The project will be done in collaboration with researchers at Yale University and the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle.
Keck School of Medicine researchers also have been awarded four P30 grants — one shared with the USC School of Dentistry — totaling $4.5 million to support junior faculty recruitment in the areas of autism, cancer, lung disease and craniofacial biology.
Elizabeth Fini, vice dean for research at the Keck School, said she expects the $34 million to increase as additional grant applications are funded.
“These grant awards are a symbol of who we are and what we represent to our peers in the national research community,” Fini said. “They are due to the creative ideas and exceptional skills of our long-standing faculty researchers, as well as junior faculty and new chairs and research leaders we’ve recently recruited.”
For more information on American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grant awards to the Keck School of Medicine of USC, visit http://tinyurl.com/keck-arra-awards
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