The University of Illinois at Chicago was awarded a $20,247,270 Project Grant from the Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health Office of the Director federal grant program titled Construction Support.
The grant will support the modernization and expansion of the University's animal-based research programs through critical renovations to the Biologic Resources Laboratory, the institution's centralized animal facility. Renovations will upgrade heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems as well as electrical systems to increase housing capacity and accommodate growth in murine-based cancer and metabolic disease research. This includes developing a patient-derived organoid and xenograft modeling core using underrepresented cancer patient populations and a new metabolic disease core to model health disparities in cardiovascular and metabolic disease treatment. The facility improvements will support animal-based research and allow expansion of translational and clinical health disparities and drug discovery programs over the September 2021 to May 2026 period of performance.
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