The Pittsburgh NMR Center for Biomedical Research is a joint endeavor of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh and is administered through the MPC Corporation. "We are very pleased to receive this grant, which will help us continue to make major contributions to the rapidly growing field of NMR in biology and medicine," said Chien Ho, director of the center and professor of Biological Sciences at Carnegie Mellon. Funds will allow investigators to pursue research in five technological research and development projects in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), including:
The grant also supports five collaborative research projects and a number of service projects to allow advances made in the technological and research development projects to be applied to solve important, independently funded biomedical problems.
The Pittsburgh NMR Center is dedicated to advancing state-of-the-art applications of in vivo MRI and magnetic resonance spectroscopy to understanding tissue and organ function and to making these tools available to the greater biomedical research community. Established in 1986 and funded continuously since 1988 by the National Institutes of Health, the Pittsburgh NMR Center is the only national NIH-supported center dedicated to advancing molecular, cellular and functional imaging using small animals.