UI receives $21 million health research grant

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The National Institutes of Health has renewed a $21 million grant to the University of Iowa that enables UI to expand its research to collect data from Iowans in their home communities. The Clinical and Translational Science Award from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences is the third renewal of the original 2007 CTSA grant. Faculty and staff in the UI Carver College of Medicine, the UI colleges of Public Health, Nursing, and Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the Tippie College of Business will use the grant to expand the university’s research efforts across the state. “We want rural Iowans represented in the national mix of citizens participating in research because rural populations have a high burden of disorders that have been underrepresented in the past,” said Dr. Patricia Winokur, executive dean of UI’s Carver College of Medicine and co-director of the Institute for Clinical and Translational Science. The award provides funding through 2023.