<p>Oh, I know the money will be flowing in soon, but so far as I know it hasn't been distributed yet (?). The thing is that research in biology takes a lot longer than you would sort of imagine that it would, so I wouldn't expect to immediately get involved in a stem cell project and expect it to go somewhere big. At least not for a few years.</p>
<p>The money described in the press release, by the way, is for postdocs...? I'm sure undergrads will be able to research in the labs to which those postdocs are attached, but it looks like the money is going for training in techniques and bioethics rather than to actual research projects. This is probably how it will be for a few years at least -- very few biologists at the moment actually have the technical knowledge to work with stem cells, so people have to be trained from professors on down.</p>
<p>(I meant to say this earlier, sorry) I actually don't know any biology faculty at MIT (off the top of my head) who are working with stem cells. Granted, this could be because there's no state money to work with them. But it also could be that none (or very few) of the faculty are interested in working with them, even if Massachusetts were to suddenly rain down free money from the sky.</p>