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Home arrow Health & Medicine arrow $3.65 million NIH grant will support neuroscience research at UNC
$3.65 million NIH grant will support neuroscience research at UNC E-mail
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
The UNC Neuroscience Center has been awarded a five-year, $3,650,000 Center Grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, part of the National Institutes of Health.

The grant supports neuroscience research infrastructure by funding cutting-edge core facilities. The award will support six core areas: genomics and bioinformatics; gene expression localization; BAC (bacterial artificial chromosome) engineering technology; embryonic stem cell technology; multiphoton and confocal imaging; and assay development for high throughput screening. 

The research cores will serve the UNC School of Medicine’s entire neuroscience community, along with other sciences on campus. The principal investigator of the grant is Dr. William Snider, director of the Neuroscience Center.

For more information about the center, visit http://www.neuroscience.unc.edu/.

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