Pitt renews grant

One of Pitt’s research centers has received a federal grant worth $67 million to expand its… One of Pitt’s research centers has received a federal grant worth $67 million to expand its work.

The National Institutes of Health awarded Pitt’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute the $67.3 million to expand research into health technologies and their clinical applications. The NIH’s National Center for Research Resources administered the grant to Pitt and nine other schools.

In a statement on UPMC’s website, Dr. Arthur Levine, Pitt’s senior vice chancellor for the health sciences, praised the center’s work, and welcomes the new funding.

“This funding validates the important work being done by University of Pittsburgh researchers and physicians who are dedicated to advancing science in a meaningful way,” he said.

The Pitt research center has supported research into areas such as computer analysis of X-rays and brain interfaces for controling artificial limbs.

The NIH gave an original grant of $83.5 million to start the center in 2006.