Federal Funding Links

Federal funding advice for biotechs offered at Sept. 10 TechTown event

TechTown’s next monthly First Friday gathering of entrepreneurs will offer advice on how to get federal grant funding for biotech start-ups.

Federal funding amounts for area schools released

Local school districts will benefit from the emergency funding Congress approved last month to save the jobs of hundreds of thousands of teachers nationwide, even though the cash may come too late to revamp the current school-year’s staffing.

ISSCR comments on hESC research federal funding injunction

Vital progress in stem cell research by hundreds of U.S. laboratories is threatened after last week's injunction prohibiting federal funding for the study of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs). The president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR), Elaine Fuchs, Rockefeller University, U.S., stated that the setbacks for advancing biomedical research on stem cells and ...

International CGAs receive federal funding

The federal government is funding a project to make it easier for internationally-trained accountants to find work in their field.

TEA applies for federal education funds, but Perry still objects to rules

The Texas Education Agency applied for $830 million in federal funds on Friday, even though Gov. Rick Perry has said he cannot make the assurances concerning future state funding required by the law.