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Legislation supplies additional $10 billion for biomed research

Monday, September 28, 2009 || Sally Wang

A new act passed this year has brought direct changes to the number of research funding applications from the Washington University School of Medicine. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) provided an additional $10 billion from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to be allocated for biomedical research over the period of two fiscal years. The roughly estimated $20 billion per year available for biomedical research projects from the NIH has increased by around 25 percent to approximately $25 billion per year.

Medical school professor Timothy Kuklo resigns after federal probes into Army research

Monday, August 24, 2009 || Puneet Kollipara

Timothy Kuklo, a researcher and professor at the Washington University School of Medicine, has voluntarily resigned after allegedly falsifying a study, a medical school spokesman confirmed Wednesday evening.

Camp Crescent provides opportunities for campers, counselors alike

Monday, November 03, 2008 || Alan Liu

Each summer, St. Louis’s Camp Crescent gives a summer camp experience to young patients of sickle-cell anemia.
“The goal of Camp Crescent is to provide a rite of passage for sickle-cell children to enjoy camp and to do it in a fashion that is safe and secure,” Michael DeBaun, a sickle-cell anemia expert and founder [...]

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