UM
earns brain
research boost
UM will establish a new center for the study of brain function and
disease, thanks to a start-up grant from the National Institutes of Health that will
provide about $7 million over the next five years."This is a huge award in terms
of dollars and impact," UM pharmaceutical sciences Professor Richard Bridges.
"This may be the largest research contract NIH has ever awarded in Montana."
The award to UM is one of 19 funded through the NIH Institutional Development Award
(IdeA) Program. As a grantee, UM will expand its research capacity by establishing a
Center of Biomedical Research Excellence focused on investigating the way brain cells
function at the biochemical level and how those functions change following injury or
disease, such as stroke or Alzheimer's.
UM already has several active neuroscientists and strong clinical ties with the
Neuroscience Institute at St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula and ongoing projects with
research laboratories at Montana State University in Bozeman and the McLaughlin Research
Institute in Great Falls.
President George Dennison, the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Pharmacy
and Allied Health Sciences teamed up to write the grant proposal.
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