Morehouse Gets $13.3M from NIH for Genomic Database
The National Institutes of Health has awarded $13.3 million in funding to the Morehouse School of Medicine to start a multi-institutional collaboration to create and maintain a database of genetic and other health information about minority populations. The initial aim of the Minority Health Genomic and Translational Research Bio-Repository Database (MH-GRID) is to create a database that will be used to study why minority patients suffer from a "more virulent clinical course of hypertension and its complications, such as stroke," but will be expanded to look into other diseases that affect minorities. The project will build on MSM's infrastructure that is funded by various organizations including the ACTSI. Read more…