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Lieberman announces Health Center grants
Katherine Smith
Issue date: 5/1/09 Section: News
Sen. Joe Lieberman (ID-CT) announced multiple grants totaling over $750,000 to be given to the University of Connecticut and its Health Center for health-related research projects April 23rd.
"UConn and the UConn Health Center engage in cutting-edge medical research that is imperative to moving our medical community forward," said Sen. Lieberman at a recent press conference. "This Recovery act funding will help ensure that Connecticut's largest public university will be able to continue to pursue its critical research."
According to the White House Office of Legislative Affairs, the two grants will be going to a transmission electron microscope for the University and a Dopaminergic Modulation of Dentritic Excitability for the Health Center in Farmington.
"These were pretty specific things the Univerisity of Connecticut requested through our department to get funding for," said Deputy Press Secretary for Sen.Lieberman Scott Overland.
The transmission electron microscope will account for a little more than $300,000 of the grant money. According to the same press release from the White House, the microscope will allow researchers to continue investigation of cardiovascular, inherited, infectious and cancerous diseases and phenomena.
According to the Institute of Materials Science department at UConn, the transmission electron microscope is a "powerful characterization tool that provides information regarding the morphology, crystallography and elemental composition for advanced materials."
The rest of the grant money will go towards the Dopaminergic Modulation of Dentritic Excitability for the UConn Health Center. Patients with psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and depression will benefit from this research as it seeks to analyze the impact of pharmacotherapy among subjects with brain dysfunction.
"Investing in medical research creates an opportunity for the scientific progress and critical breakthroughs that will improve people's health and well being. In doing so, we will help stimulate the economy, as well as ensure America's continued leadership in medical research and development," said Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro in reference to the money given towards this specific type of research at the UConn Health Center.
The money for these pieces of cutting-edge technology came from the National Institutes of Health as a part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. This Act, which was signed into law on February, is an effort to jumpstart the United States depressed economy by saving and creating millions of jobs. The Act allows the American populace to know how and where their tax dollars are being spent in a transparent and accountable way in order to regain confidence in the American economy.
"UConn and the UConn Health Center engage in cutting-edge medical research that is imperative to moving our medical community forward," said Sen. Lieberman at a recent press conference. "This Recovery act funding will help ensure that Connecticut's largest public university will be able to continue to pursue its critical research."
According to the White House Office of Legislative Affairs, the two grants will be going to a transmission electron microscope for the University and a Dopaminergic Modulation of Dentritic Excitability for the Health Center in Farmington.
"These were pretty specific things the Univerisity of Connecticut requested through our department to get funding for," said Deputy Press Secretary for Sen.Lieberman Scott Overland.
The transmission electron microscope will account for a little more than $300,000 of the grant money. According to the same press release from the White House, the microscope will allow researchers to continue investigation of cardiovascular, inherited, infectious and cancerous diseases and phenomena.
According to the Institute of Materials Science department at UConn, the transmission electron microscope is a "powerful characterization tool that provides information regarding the morphology, crystallography and elemental composition for advanced materials."
The rest of the grant money will go towards the Dopaminergic Modulation of Dentritic Excitability for the UConn Health Center. Patients with psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and depression will benefit from this research as it seeks to analyze the impact of pharmacotherapy among subjects with brain dysfunction.
"Investing in medical research creates an opportunity for the scientific progress and critical breakthroughs that will improve people's health and well being. In doing so, we will help stimulate the economy, as well as ensure America's continued leadership in medical research and development," said Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro in reference to the money given towards this specific type of research at the UConn Health Center.
The money for these pieces of cutting-edge technology came from the National Institutes of Health as a part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. This Act, which was signed into law on February, is an effort to jumpstart the United States depressed economy by saving and creating millions of jobs. The Act allows the American populace to know how and where their tax dollars are being spent in a transparent and accountable way in order to regain confidence in the American economy.
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