[ RadSafe ] Pitt gets grant to create anti-radiation center

[bobcherry at cox.net]

It is interesting that Pitt is getting this grant ($10 million) to get into this work. The Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute has been doing the same thing for 40 years (at a much greater cost, I might add).

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> From: "Sandy Perle" <sandyfl at earthlink.net>
> Date: 2005/11/22 Tue PM 01:57:28 EST
> To: radsafe at radlab.nl
> Subject: [ RadSafe ] Pitt gets grant to create anti-radiation center
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> Pitt gets grant to create anti-radiation center
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> Pittsburgh Business News (Nov 22) The University of Pittsburgh has
> received a $10 million grant to do research into protecting people
> from the effects of a large-scale nuclear attack.
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> The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases awarded the
> grant to Pitt's School of Medicine, in order to create the "Center
> for Medical Countermeasures Against Radiation."
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> The school said the center will develop and test small molecules and
> mechanisms that may help protect vital organs and tissues from the
> effects of radiation, in the event of a terrorist attack or a nuclear
> reactor accident.
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