The five-year grant will "be geared toward accelerating scientific discovery, enhancing medical care, producing highly skilled scientists and physicians and fostering partnerships with industry," according to an article on the University of Florida's website. The NIH money will be applied to a variety of medical specialties, including gene-based therapy, nanotechnology and infectious disease, among others.
“Lots of things can happen with this grant that might not have happened — or happened as well — without it,” said Dr. Peter Stacpoole, director of UF’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute and the grant’s principal investigator, in the UF story.
An NIH story on the development project notes that this latest addition of academic health centers brings the total consortium members to 46. Organizing the efforts of these institutions is the National Center for Research Resources, which is part of the National Institutes of Health and has the goal of "working to accelerate the process that develops laboratory discoveries into treatments for patients, to engage communities in clinical research and to train a new generation of clinical and translational researchers."
A project report on the consortium's work, "Advancing Scientific Discoveries Nationwide to Improve Health," is available here (PDF).
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