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Spotlight on Universities Receiving MS Research Funding

Written by Jennifer Nieuwkerk | Fri, Jul 12, 2013

In yesterday’s blog, Biotechnology Calendar, Inc. spotlighted two schools receiving funding from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Funding totaled $2.5 million and will be given to a network of nine institutions searching for a cure for MS including the Mayo Clinic, the University of California at San Francisco, Stony Brook University, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Children’s Hospital Boston, Texas Children’s Hospital, Loma Linda University, the State University of New York at Buffalo and Massachusetts General Hospital.

According to PR Newswire, multiple sclerosis is an unpredictable and often disabling disease that disrupts the flow of information within the brain and between the brain and the rest of the body. A number of groundbreaking studies have been conducted concerning multiple sclerosis over the past few years, and the disease may soon be a thing of the past if research continues to progress.

Lab suppliers marketing life science solutions and interested in increasing scientific product sales leads at life science marketing events may be interested in two more schools receiving National Multiple Sclerosis Society funding in addition to the Mayo Clinic and the University of California, San Francisco, which were spotlighted yesterday. In addition to receiving funding for multiple clerosis funding, Stony Brook University received $59.3 million in NIH research funding in 2012, while the University of Alabama at Birmingham is situated in a $405 million research and development marketplace and in 2012, received over $191 million in new NIH grants.

 

University of Alabama at Birmingham

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The department at Stony Brook University that received the most NIH funding was genetics, which received 27 awards and $9.7 million in research funding. Stony Brook University also had many other life science departments that received NIH funding, including biochemistry, biology, biomedical engineering, biostatistics, internal medicine, neurosciences, pharmacology and oncology. For a full list of departments receiving funding at Stony Brook University and the University of Alabama at Birmingham organized by department name, number of awards received and total funding awarded, please visit the NIH website.

In addition to receiving a great deal of NIH funding, Stony Brook University also received NSF funding. In 2012, the NSF awarded Stony Brook University $22.1 million in research funding. The life science programs at Stony Brook University receiving NSF funding included systematics and biodiversity science, cellular dynamics and function, genetic mechanisms, population and community ecology, molecular biophysics, physiology and structural systems, and evolutionary processes. For a full list of projects receiving NSF funding at Stony Brook University, please visit the NSF website.

Biotechnology Calendar, Inc. invites all lab suppliers interested in marketing life science solutions and increasing scientific product sales leads at life science marketing events to attend our Stony Brook BioResearch Product Faire™ Event at Stony Brook University and our Birmingham BioResearch Product Faire™ Event at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Biotechnology Calendar, Inc. is a full-service science research marketing and events-planning company that organizes life science marketing events at top research universities nationwide. For detailed funding statistics on Stony Brook University and the University of Alabama at Birmingham, or to learn more about our life science marketing events at these schools, click on the buttons below. If you would like to market your life science solutions and increase scientific product sales leads at life science marketing events closer to home, we encourage you to view our 2013 calendar of events.