Research Funding

U.S. NIH grants $11 million to Brown University for cancer research

Published in Cancer Weekly, October 25th, 2005

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded Brown University a 5-year, $11 million Center of Biomedical Research Excellence grant. The funding will allow researchers to explore how healthy cells become cancerous - knowledge critical to finding cures for the second leading cause of death in the United States.

The grant comes under the NIH's Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) program and is one of the largest research awards to Brown in recent years.

Brown received its first 5-year, $11 million COBRE award in 2000. That grant served as a springboard for the creation of the Center for Genomics and Proteomics.

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2005-10-25)

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