Presbyterian College received a five-year National Institutes of Health (NIH) $775,000 grant as a member of the South Carolina IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (SC INBRE).
“SC INBRE is a network of institutions that collaborate with one another to promote their research and training programs, and provide their students with excellent opportunities for hands-on research training,” said Dr. Lucia Pirisi-Creek, principal investigator of SC INBRE. “At Presbyterian College, SC INBRE will augment the biomedical research infrastructure, helping to improve the research facilities and providing support for researchers and their students.”
The grant will continue until June 30, 2020, and is the largest the college has received from the federal government.
Dr. Scott Asbill, department chair and professor of pharmaceutical and administrative sciences at PC, said the grant is a “great opportunity to move research at [PC] forward and to help build the research infrastructure.”
