The National Institutes of Health (NIH) have allocated $15 million in grants to the GW Medical Center, aimed at renovating roughly 25,000 square feet of the main building, the University announced today.The NIH grant will be used to provide critical infrastructure to support research for the development of new vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics for poverty-stricken areas in the United States.
"The NIH funds for this initiative will transform biomedical research and enable us to expand critical areas of much-needed clinical care and policy work," said Dr. John F. Williams, provost and vice president for Health Affairs at the Medical Center.
The NIH funds are part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
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