The University of Arizona’s College of Pharmacy and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), based in Phoenix, will receive a two-year, $7.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a drug discovery and development center to be called the Southwest Comprehensive Center for Drug Discovery and Development.

The grant allows the UA College of Pharmacy to expand the number of medicinal chemistry investigators and infrastructure, primarily in Tucson, and for TGen to expand its computational chemistry capabilities and high-throughput screening facilities.

Research and development is expected to cover a variety of diseases, including cancer, Alzheimer’s and heart disease and also events such as exposure to pathogens.

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