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...Certainly there will be a slowdown on that research until it can be formally funded from another source,” Kahn said...
...foundation also gave $50 million in 2002 for brain research at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT, then the largest single gift that Harvard’s cross-town rival had received from a foundation...
Only one year into the Picower-sponsored research, Flier said that the projects that he and his colleagues from other institutions embarked on were “more scientifically adventurous than is typical” of work funded with money from federal agencies like the National Institutes of Health. Kahn, for instance, received Picower grants to investigate a potential function of fat cells that she said was too preliminary to gain federal support at the time. With the funding stream from Picower unexpectedly shut off, it is unclear whether the researchers will be able to continue the innovative work...
Flier said that some of the research may have progressed to a point where it could receive federal funding, but that he and his colleagues—each heading his or her own laboratory—would have to make individual decisions about how to continue their work...
Kahn said that she may dip into some discretionary funds as a short-term solution to continue the research...