Senators Stabenow, Levin Announce Over $2.7 Million in NIH Funding

June 2, 2009 -- WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Carl Levin (D-MI) announced today that the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Wayne State University, Michigan State University, Calvin College, Van Andel Research Institute, and Oakland University received a total of $2,722,910 in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funding through the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

“I’m pleased this recovery funding will help support important health care research and training across our state,” Stabenow said. “By investing in health care research at our universities and research institutes, we will help keep our families healthy and help create good-paying jobs in the process.”

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“This economic recovery funding will help to preserve and create jobs in Michigan while also investing in important medical research,” said Levin. “Michigan’s top-notch universities are well-equipped to put this funding to good use.”

The National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the primary Federal agency for conducting and supporting medical research. Helping to lead the way toward important medical discoveries that improve people's health and save lives, NIH scientists investigate ways to prevent disease as well as the causes, treatments, and even cures for common and rare diseases.

Source: Senator Carl Levin