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The University of Massachusetts Amherst has landed $11.7 million from the National Institutes of Health to renovate lab space and build two new laboratories in the Lederle Graduate Research Center.
The state university plans to combine the NIH funds with campus funds to renovate three floors of Lederle in the biochemistry, molecular biology and chemistry departments. The space is now composed of offices and outdated labs, but will be modernized into laboratory space with a more open floor plan. The school plans to knock down walls in the labs in an effort to encourage collaboration.
The third, seventh and eighth floors of Lederle will become lab space for three faculty members. The building’s basement will be renovated to house nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy instrument. Goessman Laboratories will temporarily house researchers during the renovation.
The week was a good one for the land-grant university: Yesterday, UMass Medical Center landed $6 million from the National Institutes of Health for research on RNA interference (RNAi) technology. Under the five-year grant, UMass Medical researchers will attempt to quantify and control the delivery, distribution and efficiency of short pieces of RNA to suppress the genes in immune cells responsible for insulin resistance and inflammation associated with Type 2 diabetes.
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