The School of Medicine was one of 30 schools chosen from a field of 125 to receive a medical research grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
The $2.4 million grant will be used to recruit new faculty in genetics and neuroscience and to improve laboratory facilities, said Dean Michael A. Simmons. "This grant will provide critical support for existing basic and clinical science research programs, especially in the neurosciences, a center of excellence on this campus," he said.
"Many of these activities will be facilitated by the new UNC Neurosciences Center, which is anticipated to open in about three years."
Based in Chevy Chase, Md., the institute is the nation's largest private philanthropy.
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