UM Gets $14.8M NIH Grant to Build New Research Facility

February 03, 2010 — The high-tech research facility will create jobs and accelerate the pace of discovery in neurological processes and related diseases. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded the University of Miami a $14.8 million grant funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) towards the construction of a Neuroscience and Health Annex on the University's Coral Gables campus. The Annex will create an interactive hub for interdisciplinary research based on neurological imaging and health research and will provide facilities to be shared by scientists from the College of Arts and Sciences and the Miller School of Medicine. ?This new facility will provide state-of-the-art laboratories where scientists and physicians from across the University can converge to ask some of the most pressing questions in modern science. We are thrilled the NIH selected the University and the College to receive this award,? said Dr. Jacqueline Dixon, Interim Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Miami.  'The new Neuroscience and Health Annex will allow us to continue the expansion of our research capabilities and establish a sophisticated imaging center.' The new building will include a human functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) laboratory, where scientists, clinicians and engineers can work together on fundamental aspects of brain function, changing the way scientists diagnose and treat myriad neurological diseases.