Ohio institutions to get $27M for biomedical research facilities

Ohio will receive more than $27 million in federal stimulus money to improve its biomedical research facilities.

The latest flow of a continuing stream of stimulus grants comes from the National Center for Research Resources of the National Institutes of Health, according to Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown.

The money is aimed at helping to construct, repair and renovate scientific research laboratories. The projects will support immediate construction jobs and will promote long-term economic growth, Brown said.

– The Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University will get $2 million for laboratory renovations to create additional space for research to improve diagnosis and cure rates in cancer.

– Ohio State University will get $8 million to construct a multidisciplinary biomedical research and education center as a centerpiece for its health sciences campus. The Columbus, Ohio, university also will get $3.9 million to create four modern research laboratories and support space, as well as a dedicated rodent phenotyping and infectious necropsy laboratory.

– The University of Cincinnati is getting $4.8 million to renovate research space to bring together scientists from different disciplines, recruit high-caliber investigators and create an area to connect scientists with the community. The Cincinnati university also will use $8.4 million to renovate a research facility to help investigators meet present and future needs for bench and translational research.