FORT COLLINS, Colo.—A six-state medical research center based in Colorado has received $36.4 million from the National Institutes of Health to research infectious diseases.
The Rocky Mountain Regional Center of Excellence announced the award Monday. The funding will be spread out over five years.
The center is a collaboration of research universities and federal laboratories in Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming.
The center was launched in 2005 with a four-year, $40 million award from the NIH. It’s housed in Colorado State University’s Regional Biocontainment Laboratory in Fort Collins.
CSU spokeswoman Dell Rae Moellenberg says the latest award was smaller because of the recession and because another center was added to the original 10.
The Rocky Mountain center emphasizes product development, aiming to reduce the typical 10 to 20 years it takes for a scientific breakthrough to become available to the public.
