The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a $7 million grant to the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore to renovate its Center for Translational Molecular Imaging (CTMI).
Johns Hopkins Bayview will use the funds on the 4,156-sq-ft facility to create a development lab to generate reagents and house an imaging suite with a dual-modality PET scanner. Construction is scheduled for completion by January 2012.
The initial focus of CTMI will be on projects related to oncology and neurosciences, with a goal to generate cellular and molecular imaging agents onsite in an academic lab setting.
CTMI's work will include first-in-human studies as a way to bring these imaging agents to patients more expeditiously, with the hope that the process will provide early diagnosis and support for emerging cancer therapies.
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