Obama Announces $5 Billion Grant for Scientific Research
In a speech yesterday President Obama announced at the National Institute of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, an award of $5 billion in grant money to be used for finding cures for cancer, heart dieseases, and autism, among others, through specific scientific research projects.
This money has come from a $787 billion economic stimulus package which allotted $10 billion for the NIH as part of an overall $100 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act allocation to science and technology. The $5 billion was formally distributed yesterday in support of 12, 000 existing projects that will continue to occur over the course of the next two years. Continue readng ...
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