UM receives $58M to boost health care

ANN ARBOR (AP) — The University of Michigan has received a $58 million commitment to help move ideas forward to improve prevention and treatment of health problems.

The grant is from the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards program.

It offers up to five years of funding for the Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research, which helps health and life science researchers turn their best ideas and discoveries into tests, treatments, care innovations and cures.