Washington, DC – Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro (Conn. -3) announced nearly $850,000 for Yale University and the University of Connecticut through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for medical research. The National Institute of Health directs funding to projects that focus on basic research to improve the quality of life and reduce the burdens of illness and disability.

“Investing in medical research creates an opportunity for the scientific progress and critical breakthroughs that will improve people’s health and well being. In doing so, we will help stimulate the economy, as well as ensure America’s continued leadership in medical research and development,” said DeLauro.

Specifically, the two Universities are receiving recovery funding for the following projects:

Yale University:

Framework Program for Global Health at Yale University, $ 135,000: Mobilize University’s full intellectual resources to address the world's pressing global health problems through multidisciplinary curricula, foreign research experiences, and new research collaborations.

Allocation and Control of Visual Attention, $ 396,252: to analyze how “paying attention” improves performance of difficult tasks and develop models for understanding how neuronal mechanisms underlying attentional deployment are thought to be substantially impaired.

University of Connecticut Health Center:

Functional Role of NCK and CRK Binding Interactions, $ 315,629: SH2/SH3 adaptors play a central role in tyrosine phosphorylation of proteins and deregulations could cause cancers. These studies will provide functional details about these adaptors.