Vanderbilt awarded $40 million grant from the NIH

Largest single grant the NIH has given the University, to date

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09-18-2007 11:43 AM — Vanderbilt announced today it has received a $40 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, the largest single NIH grant awarded the university, thus far.

The grant will be used by Vanderbilt, in conjunction with Meharry Medical College, to help create the Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (VICTR).

According to VU's announcement today, the goal of the institute will be to “expedite the translation of laboratory discoveries to patients in the community.”

Vanderbilt is one of twelve schools to receive such a grant this year. The Clinical and Translational Science Awards, which were first awarded to a dozen schools last October, are designed to enable researchers to provide new treatments more efficiently and quickly to patients.

By 2012, the CTSA awards program is expected to provide about $500 million each year to a network of 60 centers.

NIH online information indicates Vanderbilt ranked 15th among universities in NIH grants and contracts in 2005; and, for 2006 NIH shows VU attracting $268.4 million in such funding.

Among the others schools receiving grants in this round are Johns Hopkins University, University of Chicago and Emory University.