URI-based biomed research network gets $20M grant

William Hamilton

June 10, 2019 5:10 am

SALVE REGINA UNIVERITY students Caroline McNeil, left, and Lindsay Wright work in Assistant Professor Heather Axen's lab at Salve's Department of Biology and Biomedical Sciences./COURTESY SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY — SALVE REGINA UNIVERITY students Caroline McNeil, left, and Lindsay Wright work in Assistant Professor Heather Axen's lab at Salve's Department of Biology and Biomedical Sciences. / COURTESY SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – The National Institutes of Health has awarded $20 million to the Rhode Island Institutional Development Award of Biomedical Research Excellence, or INBRE, to expand the statewide research capacity in the biomedical sciences. Led by the University of Rhode Island, INBRE is the Rhode Island branch of a national program to improve the…