Xavier University of Louisiana has received a $19.6 million grant from the National
Institutes of Health to expand the school's number of biomedical programs and increase
the number of minority students who go on to graduate from PhD and MD-PhD programs.
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Xavier receives $19.6 million grant to expand biomedical programs, aid students
October 22, 2014
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About the Louisiana Clinical and Translational Science (LA CaTS) Center
The LA CaTS Center is comprised of three primary collaborating institutions in the state, including LSU's Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge,
LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, and Tulane University School of Medicine
in New Orleans – and also includes six research partners: LSU Health in Shreveport,
Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, and in New Orleans, Xavier University of
Louisiana, Children’s Hospital, Ochsner Health System, Southeast Louisiana Veterans
Health Care System, and University Medical Center. The LA CaTS Center’s vision for
Louisiana encompasses the strengths and capacities unique to each member institution
and represents a unified, comprehensive approach for targeting prevention, care and
research of chronic diseases in the underserved population. The scholar program is
supported in part by U54 GM104940 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences
of the National Institutes of Health which funds the Louisiana Clinical and Translational
Science Center. For more information, please visit www.lacats.org.