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The Health Sciences and Services Authority (HSSA) promotes bioscience-based economic development and advances new therapies and procedures to combat disease and promotes public health. The HSSA invests funds to create and support a nationally competitive health care cluster in Spokane County catalyzing connections between higher education and health care that lead to high wage jobs, long-term sustainability, and economic diversification. HSSA will fund the very best projects through a competitive, well-monitored and accountable process.

Sen. Chris Marr (D-6), the chief sponsor of the legislation that created the HSSA, was the keynote speaker at the HSSA's first contract award ceremony at the WSU School of Nursing on Dec. 21, 2009. Click here to read his remarks.

 

Project Access Accepts $225,000



Sen. Chris Marr, Nancy Isserlis and John Driscoll, State Representative and Project Access Executive Director, accepts check for $225,000 to increase access to health care services for underserved people in Spokane County.

 

ISM Receives $675,000



Sen. Chris Marr, sponsor of the legislation that created the HSSA, with Nancy Isserlis, HSSA Board Chair, and Tom Paine, ISM Board Chair, presents ISM with first HSSA grant award to develop infrastructure capacity for bioscience research. ISM will create a human tissue and clinical data repositories for collaborative use by public and private researchers in the region.