In addition to enhancing opportunities for interdisciplinary research teams, the new facility will permit researchers to share resources, including microimaging instrumentation, an animal vivarium, a molecular screen facility, a flow cytometry laboratory, and a molecular pathology/tissue bank facility.
The University of Wisconsin is part of the Comprehensive Cancer Center Program, a program supported by the National Cancer Institute, which is also a part of NIH. The program supports major academic and research institutions throughout the United States to sustain broad-based, coordinated, interdisciplinary approaches to cancer research. These institutions are characterized by scientific excellence and capability to integrate diverse research approaches to focus on the problem of cancer. The objective of the program is the advancement of cancer research to ultimately reduce cancer incidence, morbidity, and mortality.
The grant is awarded under NCRR's Research Facilities Improvement Program, which provides funding to public and nonprofit private institutions to expand, remodel, and renovate existing research facilities or construct new research facilities. These facilities must support basic and/or clinical biomedical and behavioral research, and they may also support research training.
NCRR is part of the National Institutes of Health, an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services. NCRR is the nation's leading federal sponsor of resources that enable advances in many areas of biomedical research. NCRR support provides the scientific research community with access to a diverse array of biomedical research technologies, instrumentation, specialized basic and clinical research facilities, animal models, genetic stocks, and such biomaterials as cell lines, tissues, and organs.
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Contact: Joyce McDonald
info@ncrr.nih.gov
301-435-0888
NIH/National Center for Research Resources
24-Jun-2004