Fallin Announces Health Care Grant To Serve Rural OK
Fallin announces federal grant for research, rural health care
BY BARBARA HOBEROCK World Capitol Bureau
OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma received a $20.3 million federal grant to fund medical research and help serve the state’s rural population, Gov. Mary Fallin announced Monday.
The National Institutes of Health grant was given to the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in collaboration with the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation and other institutions across the state.
“This grant will help support potentially life-saving research at Oklahoma’s world class medical centers,” Fallin said. “It will also help to provide additional resources for rural areas that have been typically underserved.”
OU President David Boren said the multiyear, interdisciplinary grant is the largest the university had ever received from the National Institutes of Health.