Duke Researchers Bring Stimulus Funds And Jobs To NC; Nearly 250 grants total $153.9 million

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By Karl Leif Bates

November 4, 2009

Those four new people are among 166 new jobs created or saved at Duke to date by the stimulus funds, after an unprecedented nationwide competition for grants under the one-time stimulus package.

Though the funding is only short-term, the wave of grants flowing into North Carolina and the Duke University campus from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) has provided a much-needed boost to hundreds of researchers.

For example, a two-year, $1.5 million stimulus grant from the NIH’s Heart, Lung and Blood Institute is accelerating assistant professor Svati Shah's search for genetic differences in human metabolism that may relate to a higher risk of heart disease. She's using the funds to add four new people to her lab.

“I’m up until 2 or 3 in the morning doing statistical analyses because I didn’t have anybody to help me,” Shah said. She plans to hire a post-doctoral fellow, a Ph.D. statistician and two lab technicians.

Those four new people are among 166 new jobs created or saved at Duke to date by the stimulus funds, after an unprecedented nationwide competition for grants under the one-time stimulus package.

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