November 4, 1998

Contact: Timothy McKernan (619) 594-2588

 

SDSU receives NIH grant to renovate biomed labs

Biomedical research at San Diego State University will soon be conducted from state-of-the-art laboratories, thanks to a $1 million grant from The National Institutes of Health. The grant, from the NIH’s Research Infrastructure program, will be matched by funds from internal sources to upgrade the facilities housed in the University’s North Life Sciences building. The renovation will be completed over a two-year period.

Sanford Bernstein, chair of SDSU’s biology department, said the 30-year-old building was not designed for the type of research currently being conducted. The grant will create 15 research labs and six common areas so researchers can share expensive equipment.

“Our faculty should be commended for doing top-flight research despite not having top-flight resources for it,” Bernstein said. “This grant will put SDSU’s biomed labs on par with the finest in the nation.”

Bernstein said biomed research at SDSU, which currently includes work on cardiovascular function and disease, viral disease mechanism, gene inheritance and immune system function, will continue to offer students the opportunity to perform laboratory research, but under better working conditions that will allow experimental procedures to be performed more readily.

“This grant means the NIH recognizes the high-quality research programs at SDSU,” he said.

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