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The Recovery Act at Johns Hopkins University A message from University President Ron Daniels: The role of any research institution and especially The Johns Hopkins University is to stretch the human mind in a way that uses our best ideas to advance social progress and scientific understanding for the betterment of the world around us. Thanks to more than $150 million in federal funding provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Johns Hopkins is meeting that goal and creating jobs in the process with its stimulus-funded investigations. Our research projects include efforts to find a more effective and less costly way to protect heart failure patients from sudden cardiac death, and the successful development of a national registry for domino kidney transplants that could lead to a giant leap in the number of those surgeries performed in the United States in a year, each with the potential to save thousands if not millions of lives. At Johns Hopkins, stimulus dollars are providing a look at the mysteries of the human Approximate Number System to determine how it changes from infancy through adulthood to the impact that number sense acuity has on later success or failure in academic and higher order mathematics. And there are investigations into ways to more effectively deliver cancer drugs, combat such debilitating conditions as Alzheimer’s disease, progeria and schizophrenia, and treat those suffering or recovering from substance abuse. Through these investigations, the university has answered the federal government’s call to help stimulate the economy in a way that is unique to Johns Hopkins and its mission to create knowledge for the world. Ronald J. Daniels Spotlight: Economic Impact (as of 9/29/10)
NOTE: These figures do not include jobs saved when existing grants ended, and do not count faculty and grad student positions supported by ARRA grants.
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