Washington state’s Life Sciences Discovery Fund has awarded six grants to researchers totaling $5 million, the agency said today. Grant winners are Clifford Berkman and Diane Cook of Washington State University, and Eberhard Fetz, Cecilia Giachelli, Pierre Mourad, and Patrick Stayton of the University of Washington. The grants will fuel a variety of projects that include research into imaging of prostate cancer, diagnostic smart cards and recovery from brain damage. The winners were selected by the fund’s board of trustees, from a pool of 86 applications.
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Luke is an award-winning journalist specializing in life sciences. He has served as national biotechnology editor for Xconomy and national biotechnology reporter for Bloomberg News. Luke got started covering life sciences at The Seattle Times, where he was the lead reporter on an investigation of doctors who leaked confidential information about clinical trials to investors. The story won the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award and several other national prizes. Luke holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and during the 2005-2006 academic year, he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.
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