Life Sciences grant aims at boosting health care in Washington State

After a day of deliberations, a trustee panel will announce Tuesday evening the first recipients of the Life Sciences Discovery Fund grant — a new competition that was designed to channel millions of dollars in tobacco-settlement money toward life-sciences research in Washington.

The first round will award about $6 million, split among six to eight groups, said Lee Huntsman, the fund authority’s executive director. Those groups’ project proposals will be chosen out of 74 requesting $57 million. The applicants, all non-profits, are listed on the fund’s Web site http://www.lsdfa.org/disclosure/index.html .

By ANDREA JAMES
P-I REPORTER

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