Article archive / September 2022
Originally published: . Volume 13, No. 9. Source pages: 5.
According to an August 17 press release, the LA CaTS Network, which has built a statewide research infrastructure based on a collaborative partnership involving 11 major Louisiana academic, research and healthcare delivery institutions, has been selected by the National Institutes of Health to receive a $20 million, five-year grant to continue its work to make Louisiana healthier by addressing health disparities and improving health outcomes in the state’s underserved population with chronic diseases. "The new $20 million award will bring total NIH grant support for the Louisiana Clinical and Translational Science (LA CaTS) Network to $60 million over a 15-year period. The additional $20 million will enable the LA CaTS partner institutions across Louisiana to continue their collaborative work, with the long-term goal of building a healthier Louisiana,” said John Kirwan, Ph.D. Dr. Kirwan is Pennington Biomedical Research Center’s Executive Director and the NIH grant Principal Investigator. Program Co-Directors are Steve Nelson, M.D., Interim Chancellor of the LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, and Lee Hamm, M.D., Dean of the Tulane University School of Medicine. In addition to directly funding biomedical research, the NIH grant will also help boost the number of scientists in Louisiana who conduct biomedical research as well as facilitate a grassroots effort to increase community input and involvement in clinical and translational research studies, Dr. Kirwan noted.
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