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Gov. Mark Dayton wants to fund the hiring of 50 researchers for the University of Minnesota Medical School over the next eight years. <\/p>\n
The plan is part of a two-year, $30 million proposal aimed at restoring the medical school to national prominence. It ranked 30th last year in federal research funding, a key indicator of success. Dayton says the school was ranked eighth in 1968. <\/p>\n
\"While it has deserved prominence in many areas, including clinical practice, from a research standpoint it's not in the top eight anymore, and it should be, and we need it to be,\" Dayton told reporters Wednesday. <\/p>\n
Medical school officials say more researchers would bring in more research money. <\/p>\n
Dr. Brooks Jackson, dean of the medical school, says he'd like to see it in the top 20 within five years and the top 15 within a decade. <\/p>\n
Dayton's proposal would fund half the number of researchers suggested by the governor's medical school review panel. <\/p>\n
State Rep. Bud Nornes, R-Fergus Falls, chairman of the House Higher Education Policy and Finance Committee, said he was not opposed to the governor's proposal. <\/p>\n
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