Children Hospital and Research Center to Receive Recovery Funding
For Immediate Release
May 20, 2009
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Ricci Graham
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Washington D.C. – Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-Oakland) announced today that Children’s Hospital and Research Center of Oakland will receive funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for a biomedical research project.
Children’s Hospital and Research Center will receive $240,000 from HHS to fund a proposal to test a new genetically-influenced mechanism that can contribute to inter-individual variation in drug response. The results of this research could yield improvement in the ability to identify individuals most likely to achieve cardiovascular benefits from statin treatment, and new pharmacologic approaches for increasing statin effectiveness.
“The work that is being done in this area is of extreme importance,” said Congresswoman Lee. “I am pleased that Children’s Hospital will receive funding for this project. It is my hope that the test will yield the type of results that will enhance the treatment of cardiovascular-related conditions.”
The money is being made available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. To learn more about the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, go to www.recovery.gov.
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