The state’s Life Sciences Discovery Fund announced today that six new research projects will receive $5.1 million combined in funding. The projects will finance research into bone healing, improving limb amputation procedures, enhancing cancer treatment, and generating a wheat variety that’s safe for people with celiac disease. The grants are going to scientists at the Institute for Systems Biology, University of Washington, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Washington State University.
Author: Luke Timmerman
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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