March 13, 2012 in City Researchers wooed to organize $15 million researchcenter <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The HSSA was established several years ago to capture some of the local-option sales taxes collected in the Spokane area to help pay for projects designed to create a thriving research cluster in thearea. <\/p>\n
Washington State University is recruiting two genetics researchers to its Spokane campus to launch a $15 million research enterprise that will add 135 pharmaceuticalscientists. <\/p>\n
Its a bold research and job-creation effort announced Monday that relies in part on leveraging a $1.2 million investment of local tax dollars with federal, state and privatefunds. <\/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 SpokaneCounty. <\/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 clusterhere. <\/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 becommercialized. <\/p>\n
Philip Lazarus, a professor and researcher at Penn State Universitys 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. The HSSA is contributing $500,000 over two years to help bring Lazarus to Spokane and set up hisprogram. <\/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 healthsciences. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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