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U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords announced that $522,402 in economic recover funds would be provided to the UA for disease research.

U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords announced this week that researchers at The University of Arizona will receive $522,402 in federal economic recovery funds.

The funds will be distributed through the National Institutes of Health and will help pay for three studies at Arizona's oldest institution of higher learning.

Funding includes $224,130 for a study into a greater understanding of the bacterium that causes diseases like meningitis and pharyngitis, which occur mostly in adolescents and young adults.

Another study will focus on the development of new therapies for various diseases and will recieve $222,772.

The third study will receive $75,500 to research the parasite that causes Chagas disease, which is effects millions of people in Mexico and Central and South America.

The National Institutes of Health funds biomedical research and research training at more than 3,000 U.S. institutions.

Federal economic recovery funds are being made available as a result of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that was approved by Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama earlier this year.