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WIBV TV Buffalo:

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) - Roswell Park Cancer Institute is expected to be hit hard by government spending cuts.

The world-renowned hospital is expected to lose $6 million in research funding because of the sequester. Officials predict the loss of money could lead to reduced treatment time and job cuts.

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South Florida Sun-Sentinel:

With hopes of finding out why older people get diseases like osteoporosis, dementia and arthritis, scientist Laura Niedernhofer came to Scripps Florida in Jupiter last year to do research on aging and degenerative diseases. "There's some underlying change. That's why older people are vulnerable," she said. [jump]


"If I don't find funding quickly, I will have to stop this line of research," said Niedernhofer, who said $750,000 already has been invested in the project when she was at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. She was hired by Scripps last summer....

The National Institutes of Health, the world's largest supporter of biomedical research, will lose $1.6 billion of its $30 billion annual budget due to the mandated government budget cuts. The NIH has said it will have to turn down 1,000 new research proposals from the nation's leading labs and medical schools and may not be able to renew some existing grants.

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WSLS TV Roanoake:

"It makes us have to make tough decisions on whether to take on students or new trainees," VTCRI researcher, Dr. Pearl Chiu says.

So far, there's been $620,000 in cuts to 8 research programs at Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute. They will loose a total of $1.6 million for 26 programs in the next year. If nothing changes, the institute will have a total of $10 million cut in the next 5 years.

The cuts are specifically impacting research on childhood disease, brain disorders, and cancer.

'The money we save now by making these very dramatic cuts, are costing us more later because people with these health problems are costing society, whether its through health insurance, loss of work, etc," VTCRI Executive Director, Dr. Michael Friedlander says.

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