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U-M Medical School Gets NIH Grants ANN ARBOR, MI (Michigan Radio) - The University of Michigan Medical School is getting a boost from federal stimulus package awards.

The National Institutes of Health is giving the U of M Medical School a total of $47.5 million in federal recovery funds.

Dr. James Woolliscroft is dean of the medical school.

He says the money will help pay for ongoing research of diseases like pulmonary fibrosis and cystic fibrosis, cancer and kidney disease.

Woolliscroft says competition was fierce for 15 NIH challenge grants.

"There were more than 20,000 applications that were received for those challenge grants, and so the success of our faculty in competing for such a limited number of grants is really quite remarkable," Woolliscroft says.

Another project will look for biomarkers to help make more informed decisions about bone marrow and other transplants.
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