Meharry received $5.7M in stimulus funds

By Erin Lawley Posted on October 22, 2009 at 11:45 am

Meharry Medical College has received $5.7 million in funding from the $4.35 billion made available by the National Institutes of Health through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The money will expand the school’s research on health disparities, including research on women’s health, cancer and HIV/AIDS.

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Incubator teams with UT foundation

By Geert De Lombaerde Posted on February 10, 2009 at 11:07 pm

Downtown’s Cumberland Emerging Technologies and the University of Tennessee Research Foundation will further explore a “promising” arthritis treatment.

“Licensing this technology is an important milestone for CET,” said A.J. Kazimi, Chief Executive Officer of Cumberland Pharmaceuticals and CET. “Not only are we adding a promising new product candidate to our development pipeline, we are also providing researchers with the resources necessary to advance this important work. This is precisely what we envisioned when we created CET to bridge the gap between the research laboratory and the commercial marketplace.”

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