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Article: GOV. SPITZER, LT. GOV. PATERSON ANNOUNCE STEM CELL RESEARCH AWARDS
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- January 7, 2008
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Gov. Eliot Spitzer, D-N.Y., has issued the following news release:
Governor Eliot Spitzer and Lieutenant Governor David A. Paterson today announced the first grant awards of New York State's new $600 million multi-year stem cell research program, offering new hope to people who suffer from debilitating and life threatening diseases and ailments such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and cancer. The awards - totaling $14.5 million - were approved today at a meeting in New York City of the Funding Committee of the Empire State Stem Cell Board.
In an effort to quickly boost New York's biomedical research capability, the first awards are being made eight months after Governor Spitzer created a stem ...