Federal health institutes cut to hit U of Minnesota researchers

“Without [these grants], we wouldn’t be doing significant research. There’s really no replacement for it.”

— University of Minnesota Executive Vice Dean Mark Paller on the impending loss of grant money from the National Institutes of Health, which awarded the U $141 million in research grants last year. The NIH is expected to lose about $2 billion from its budget, which was $31 billion last year.

Paller said the U needs to encourage research throughout the U’s various schools and recruit new faculty to attract more funding.

Read the full story in the Minnesota Daily.

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Alex Friedrich reports on higher education issues for MPR News. Among the stories he has covered: the fall of the Berlin Wall, aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis, 2003 Moscow suicide bombing and 2004 presidential elections in the Republic of Georgia. He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Georgia and a master’s in European political economy from the London School of Economics.