Philadelphia Alliance Gets $3.7M in Bioinformatics Funding

From the Philadelphia Business Journal:

"In its first year of operation, the Greater Philadelphia Bioinformatics Alliance has secured more than $3.7 million to fund regional bioinformatics and computational biology initiatives.

Launched by BioAdvance in October 2003, the bioinformatics alliance was created to link biomedical and computer science researchers with practitionersin private industry and academia.

In addition to $2.5 million from BioAdvance, the alliance received funding from state and federal agencies, including a $600,000 'Partnership for Innovation' grant from the National Science Foundation."