The National Institutes of Health announced nine health research centers will receive $255 million over five years to help apply lab discoveries to patient treatments. The funds are part of the Clinical and Translational Science Awards program, which is led by the NIH’s National Center for Research Resources.
In a press release, NIH Director Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD, said, “A critical goal of biomedical research is to transform discoveries into preventions, treatments, and cures. By working together, CTSAs are removing barriers to research, training new generations of clinical and laboratory research teams, and providing them with the equipment and resources they need.”
The new institutions are:
Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC
Georgetown University with Howard University, Washington, DC
Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
University of California, Irvine
University of California, San Diego
University of Massachusetts, Worcester
University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond
The Children’s Research Center at Children’s National Medical Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Howard University College of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, University of California, Irvine College of Medicine, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine/Health Sciences and Virginia Commonwealth University are Research!America members.
The CTSA consortium now includes 55 member institutions working to “enhance the efficiency and quality of clinical and translational research.”
Read more about the 2010 CTSA awardees.
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