Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center has received a five-year, $11.4 million federal grant that doubles funding for its general clinical research center.

        The center is a special eight-bed unit that was created in 1963 to allow doctors to apply a wide range of research discoveries to real patients, including children and adults.

        Current projects focus on HIV/AIDS, diabetes, bile acid metabolism, cardiovascular risk, behavior, hypertension, neuromuscular diseases, growth and nutrition, breast cancer, cystic fibrosis, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and Gaucher disease.

        The center is one of 79 nationwide, including 10 pediatric centers, that receive this type of funding from the National Institutes of Health. While Children's Hospital gets many grants, this one is considered especially large because it exceeds $2 million a year.

        “In recent years, significant advances have been made in the laboratory which have led to better understanding of the molecular basis of disease,” said Dr. James E. Heubi, GCRC director. “For these advances to be realized by patients ... the newly acquired information must be integrated into treatment. The GCRC supplies a resource that allows physicians to apply research breakthroughs at the bedside.”

        The federal grant helps pay for equipment and staff who often would not be involved in standard patient care, such as support for electron microscopy, mass spectrometry and monthly clinical research forums.

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