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Scripps, Burnham Receive NIH Grants Totaling $180M

Scripps Research Institute and Burnham Institute for Medical Research garnered a combined $180 million in National Institutes of Health grant money that will join their bicoastal operations with a nationwide network of researchers who will employ high-tech ways of identifying and fighting disease in the body.

Scripps said Sept. 2 it received its largest research grant to date , more than $80 million over six years , to help discover new molecules, or “targets,” in the body that play an important role in disease. Burnham said it received $97.9 million in grant money it will use to support research activities at its sites in La Jolla and Lake Nona, Fla., a sister facility slated to open in the spring.

“It’s really encouraging to get a large amount of money at a time, unfortunately, when the NIH is limiting its funding,” said Richard Lerner, president of Scripps Research Institute. “There are institutes in town where the entire budget is not this much.”

Both research institutes were awarded the grants after participating in a three-year NIH pilot program.

Scripps and Burnham are among nine institutions to receive funding under the Molecular Libraries and Imaging Initiative, one of the NIH Roadmap Initiatives for Medical Research designed to eliminate roadblocks and accelerate scientific discoveries into medical treatments.

The institutes comprise a collaborative research network that will use high-throughput robotics and other rapid-speed technologies that will enhance chemical screening to discover new drugs.

The researchers will openly share their data with the scientific community through PubChem, an Internet database open to academic researchers and companies working in drug development.

, Heather Chambers

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