KSLA News 12 Shreveport, Louisiana |Xavier getting $10M for research center
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Associated Press - November 3, 2009 5:34 AM ET
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Xavier University in New Orleans will receive roughly $2 million a year for the next five years to develop a cancer research center.
The grant is coming from the National Institutes of Health and its Research Centers in Minority Institutions.
The university says in a Monday news release that the money will be used to establish laboratories, pay for equipment and staff and fund pilot research projects.
Xavier, a historically black, Catholic institution is 1 of 4 minority institutions receiving grants totaling about $75 million, according to the NIH Web site.
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