Massachusetts Life Sciences Collaborative
Massachusetts Life Sciences Collaborative Urges Congress to Include New Research Funding in Federal Stimulus Package - January 9, 2009
The Massachusetts Life Sciences Collaborative has called for the proposed federal stimulus package to include increased funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other scientific research agencies such as the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Energy (DOE).
In a letter to the Massachusetts Congressional delegation from Harvard President Drew Faust, MIT President Susan Hockfield, Genzyme Chairman and CEO Henri Termeer, and UMass President Jack Wilson, the co-chairs of the MLSC leadership council underscored their confidence that increased funding of NIH will stimulate economic activity and job growth throughout the country in the short term, and also advance critical longer term economic interests of the United States by stabilizing our position in the worldwide competition to attract and support the best and brightest minds to biomedical research.
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