At least 34 research jobs at Stanford medical school from stimulus funds

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By Ruthann Richter

August 4, 2009

Mackey is among at least 45 researchers at the School of Medicine who have been helped by the national stimulus package, which was signed into law in February and includes $8.2 billion in extramural funding for the NIH. That’s an additional 28 researchers since June 16 when the last total was made public. 

Sean Mackey, MD, PhD, has been studying the roots of pain in the brain, applying last year for a grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue his imaging studies in the field. But the grant was held up by a shortage of cash at the federal agency.

Now, thanks to the national economic stimulus program, Mackey, an associate professor of anesthesia and pain management at the Stanford University School of Medicine, will receive $318,000 to expand his work, in which he is using functional magnetic resonance imaging to control brain activities in real time. The research not only will help in pain management but may also shed light on addiction, cognitive development, depression and brain injury, he said. And the funds will enable him to hire two full-time employees, in addition to providing faculty salary support for him and his collaborators in radiology, psychiatry and psychology, he said.

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