A $37 million grant will support collaborative research among five institutions, including the University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler.
The Clinical and Translational Science Award from the National Institutes of Health will be used over five years to improve current infrastructure for the work involving UT Health Houston, UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, UT Rio Grande Valley and Rice University, according to a news release.
“This grant offers substantive advantages for our institution,” said Dr. Steven Idell, the health science center at Tyler’s senior vice president for research.
“The CTSA awarding by the NIH provides a wealth of expanded research opportunities between the collaborating institutions. The fact that we will be working with some of the best investigators in American biomedical science is certainly exciting for East Texas and for the nation.”
The grant also will help expand clinical research to get patients for clinical trials, which would improve ways to treat diseases. It will fund training for students and clinical faculty on how to complete clinical research projects. Clinicians also can get a master’s degree in clinical research with the grant’s assistance, according to the news release.
“Our institutions will be training the next wave of investigators,” Idell said. “This is the future of medical research, taking place at UT Health Science Center at Tyler and affiliates within the region.”
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