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— The Medical College of Wisconsin’s Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment today announced $10.6 million in grant funding for 43 community health projects.
Grants of up to $250,000 are being provided to community-based nonprofits as well as MCW faculty, helping fund projects over a 24-month period starting this month.
The larger portion of the grants — about $5.9 million — are going to community groups, with nine supporting statewide projects, 12 funding urban projects and three supporting rural parts of the state. These 24 grants will impact 20 counties in the state, ranging from rural health workforce efforts and health literacy initiatives to projects boosting mental health access and more.
The other $4.7 million is going toward 19 research projects led by faculty at the college, including those related to flu vaccination, premature infant respiratory care, HIV treatment and prevention, advance care planning, treatment for blindness and other scientific endeavors.
Recipients were chosen by the MCW Consortium on Public and Community Health, the AHW Research and Education Advisory Committee and the MCW Board of Trustees, which all provide oversight for the endowment.
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— Federal research funding cuts are having “unacceptable” impacts on scientific progress, according to the vice chancellor for research at UW-Madison.
Dorota Grejner-Brzezinska spoke yesterday on a panel in Milwaukee organized by the Wisconsin Technology Council focused on how shifting federal priorities are impacting innovation in the state.
She previously served on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology during the first Trump administration and was later appointed to the National Science Board under the Biden administration.
Fifty-one percent of the federal funding that goes to UW-Madison comes from the National Institutes of Health, while the next largest source is the National Science Foundation at about 17%, Grejner-Brzezinska said yesterday. Other agencies all make up shares in the single digits.
“NIH at the moment is roughly at the level of about 40% spending equivalent to the previous years,” she said yesterday, noting its approach has changed to “frontload” awards to the detriment of some research institutions.
“The priorities of the organization have changed,” she added, pointing to disruptions to research on cancer, Alzheimer’s disease and more. “This is completely unacceptable. The research is not a stop-and-go operation, and I don’t think the federal government fully understands that this is the case.”
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