NIH AWARDS $8 MILLION FOR METABOLIC RESEARCH SPACE IN I³R; U OF A ADDS $7.5 MILLION

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., Oct. 28 -- The University of Arkansas issued the following news release:

The National Institutes of Health awarded the University of Arkansas $8 million to build out 15,600 square feet of space on the first floor of the Institute for Integrative and Innovative Research (I³R). The grant is led by Narasimhan Rajaram, director of the Arkansas Integrative Metabolic Research Center and professor of biomedical engineering.

The build-out puts the center's research spaces and the faculty who use them under one roof for the first time, and the university is adding its own funds to the federal award to accelerate the project.

AIMRC's core facilities in bioenergetics, imaging and spectroscopy, and data science, and faculty ...