Johns Hopkins University awarded $41M in stimulus research grants

[CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight]

Colleagues,

As reported in the Washington Business Journal ... Johns Hopkins University has won 119 scientific research grants worth more than $41 million due to the federal stimulus package.

The grants will finance research related to computer-assisted orthopedic surgery, the role that certain proteins play in the development of muscular dystrophy to effective treatments of patients with sickle cell disease.

The federal stimulus package provided the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation with $12.4 billion in extra money to fund research grants by September 2010. Through June, Johns Hopkins scientists had submitted nearly 1,200 proposals for stimulus-funded projects....

Read on at: http://washington.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2009/08/03/dai...

ENJOY!

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[Gerry Higgins]

Altogether, Hopkins submitted 2,500 applications for the NIH Challenge grants alone, according to the Director's ofice at the NIH. That is more than 10% of the total proposals they received.