Dr. Wolff has received research financing to Johns Hopkins University from Genentech, which manufactures the anti-HER2 drug trastuzumab (Herceptin).
(Aston Martin) Last week, President Obama asked Congress to increase the Department of Energy's vehicle research financing.
Dr. Hayes has received research financing to the University of Michigan from Pfizer, Novartis and AstraZeneca, which manufacture various anti-estrogenic agents.
The University of California helped obtain research financing from private corporations and foundations; Dr. Fisher's new lab is financed by Geron, a California-based biotechnology company.
And because it's nearly impossible to imagine Congress significantly increasing research financing, any growth in long-term R. and D. will be, largely, up to the private sector.
A review of relevant SPH and University documents was conducted to obtain general information about the organization, staff numbers and their qualifications, number of HSR publications, and research financing.
For some small biotechnology companies, the research financing from the National Institutes of Health or the Defense Department has been a godsend at a time when investors are shunning biotechnology and the companies are running out of cash.
Dr. Khuri-Yakub has obtained research financing from the National Institutes of Health to use the transducers to go inside arteries to search for plaque.
In addition, Merck will provide Neurogen with research financing and other payments totaling $12 million during the first two years of the agreement.
GVdB, via the Catholic University of Leuven, receives structural research financing from the Methusalem program, funded by the Flemish Government.
