September 23, 2009 in City

Tax authority awards medical grant

Funds will help create human tissue bank and clinical data repository
John Stucke johnst@spokesman.com, (509) 459-5419
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A Spokane medical research organization has received a $675,000 grant from a local taxing authority.

The Institute for Systems Medicine will use the grant from the Health Sciences and Services Authority of Spokane County to create a human tissue bank and boost efforts to set up a clinical data repository, said Anthony Bonanzino, chief executive officer of ISM, a nonprofit group.

The projects will help provide a foundation for future biomedical research, along with a clinical instrumentation laboratory, he said.

“Medical research can’t exist without human tissue samples and a repository for clinical data that can be shared,” Bonanzino said. …

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