And based on David's initial promising results, which were paid with seed funds at MIT, I was able to attract major research funding and the federal government.
大卫的初步实验十分成功。 当时实验经费是 麻省理工学院的种子资金。 而后成果的实验结果吸引了私营企业和联邦政府 投入大笔的研究资金， 那是我们研究经费的主体。