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Schumer Secures $500,000 for Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo

Date: Nov. 22, 2004
Issues: Health and Health Care


SCHUMER SECURES $500,000 FOR ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE IN BUFFALO

Funding included in new FY05 Omnibus Appropriations report

Funds will be used to buy equipment for Roswell Park's Data Bank and BioRepository to help process and store biological specimens and process, sort and store data from questionnaires and medical records

Senator Charles E. Schumer announced today that Congress has passed $500,000 in federal funds for the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo. $250,000 of the funds were included in the Labor, Health and Human Services Appropriations and $250,000 of the funds were included in the Energy and Water Appropriations portion of the bill. The bill will proceed to the President to be signed into law.

"Roswell Park is one of the top cancer research centers in the entire country, and we are blessed to have it here in Buffalo," Schumer said. "This federal money will help Roswell Park keep up the fight against cancer and hopefully get us another step closer to finding a cure."

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