VUMC gives boost to Middle Tennessee's economy thanks to NIH stimulus funding

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By Vanderbilt University
July 24, 2009

Marylyn Ritchie, Ph.D., will be able to accelerate her research at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and nearly double her lab staff, thanks to $923,000 in federal stimulus money she will receive over the next two years. Richie’s grant will add four or five new positions in her lab.

“This is a huge grant,” said Ritchie, who directs the Computational Genomics Core. “There are a lot of people in Middle Tennessee who are unemployed statisticians."

Ritchie’s funding is among the first stimulus grants awarded in Tennessee by the NIH under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which was signed into law by President Obama in February.

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