Washington State University is recruiting two genetics researchers to its Spokane campus to launch a $15 million enterprise that will add 135 pharmaceutical scientists. <\/p>\n
It's a bold research and job creation that relies, in part, on leveraging a $1.2 million investment of local tax dollars with federal, state and private funds. <\/p>\n
\"These are people and projects that can be a real catalyst for Spokane,\" said Susan Ashe, acting executive director of the Health Sciences & Services Authority of Spokane County. <\/p>\n
Called the HSSA, the authority was established several years ago to capture a sliver of the local-option sales taxes collected in the Spokane area to help pay for projects designed to create a thriving research cluster here. <\/p>\n
If successful, the projects will turn into either sustained research facilities that create jobs, or they will produce ideas or goods that can be commercialized. <\/p>\n
Philip Lazarus, a professor and researcher at Penn State University's College of Medicine, has been offered a position to erect a new academic and research program at WSU, a rare opportunity that WSU is dangling as a recruitment tool along with a generous financial package. <\/p>\n
The authority is contributing $500,000 over two years to help bring Lazarus to Spokane and set up his program. <\/p>\n
\"This is pretty exciting stuff. An opportunity in academic research to really create something with your stamp on it,\" said Gary Pollack, WSU vice provost for health sciences. <\/p>\n
Lazarus would work as WSU's chairman of pharmaceutical sciences at the Spokane campus starting in 2014. <\/p>\n
His area of expertise is molecular genetics. Specifically, Lazarus is interested in pharmacogenomics. He would bring his independent, federally funded research with him. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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