Dr. Mitzi Nagarkatti awarded new NIH grant.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded another grant to the USC School of Medicine. Dr. Mitzi Nagarkatti has been awarded an NIH grant for $441,954 to renovate the existing Animal Resource Facilities (ARF) in the basement of Building 4 of the SOM.

This grant adds to the School of Medicine (SOM)’s unprecedented expansion in Basic Science research funding in the last three years. Last year, the SOM was also awarded a $6 million center grant from the NIH to develop novel plant-derived anti-inflammatory agents to treat autoimmune diseases.

Moreover, the SOM was also instrumental in recruiting several NIH-funded investigators.

The goals of the newest grant:

To provide quality housing for rodents especially immunocompromised, transgenic, knockout and knockin mice.
To enhance the environmental conditions as well as health and safety for the animal care and animal use personnel.
To enable the NIH-funded investigators to pursue cutting-edge research in the areas of Cardiovascular Sciences, Cancer Biology and Neurosciences.
To facilitate the recruitment of new faculty and trainees.
To help ARF maintain AAALAC accreditation and be compliant with the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals.

These renovations would benefit more than 25 investigators who have attracted $10.75 million in annual direct costs. In addition to Dr. Mitzi Nagarkatti, who will serve as the Principal Investigator, this project included the following investigators from the SOM who were instrumental in putting this application together:

Prakash Nagarkatti, Shayne Barlow, Tom Borg, Gregory Brower, Wayne Carver, Kim Creek, Joseph Janicki, Jay Potts, Jim R. Fadel, Susan Lessner, Lawrence Reagan, Frank Berger, Marlene Wilson, Alexander J. McDonald, Lucia Pirisi-Creek, Ann Ramsdell, Richard Goodwin, Kenneth Walsh, Edie Goldsmith, David Mott, and Jason Gardner.

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