WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- The National Center for Research Resources says it will spend $117 million to fund four new and seven continuing U.S. biomedical research centers.
The NCRR, part of the National Institutes of Health, said the research centers are multidisciplinary facilities, each concentrating on one general area of biomedical research.
New centers are being established at Louisiana State University to study obesity and diabetes, the University of Kansas to investigate liver disease, the University of Mississippi to conduct neuroscience research, and at the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College to examine infectious pathogens.
Projects receiving continued funding include: immunological research at Dartmouth Medical School, cardiovascular investigations at the Medical University of South Carolina, the study of microbial pathogens at the University of Kansas Medical Center, investigations of the central nervous system at the University of New Mexico, neuroscience research projects at both the University of Vermont College of Medicine and the University of Wyoming and cancer studies at West Virginia University.
