UVa Health Foundation Breaking News
Governor Mark Warner Announces Proposal for Major Spending on Research Initiative at Virginia Colleges
On December 7, Virginia Governor Mark Warner unveiled a new partnership with higher education to enhance current research efforts and to attract the "best and brightest" to the state's research initiatives.
Before a crowd of almost 200 people at the Virginia BioTechnology Research Park in Richmond, Warner proposed a research package of $554 million with approximately $255 million coming from the state and another $299 million in matching funds from universities involved in the initiative.
The governor's plan specifically cites the University of Virginia's new clinical cancer center as one of the facilities in the new funding package that will be part of his upcoming budget. In addition, the University's disease treatment and tissue repair research, which focuses on developing treatments for diabetes, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's diseases, was among the programs singled out in the governor's remarks.
For more on the governor's initiative, please see these articles:
UVa Top News Daily article
Charlottesville Daily Progress article