Children’s National Hospital has received millions of dollars from the National Institutes of Health for its campus on the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center in D.C.
The pediatric nonprofit health system said Wednesday the NIH has awarded the Children’s National Research and Innovation Campus $6.7 million to fund new research areas. The plan, it said, is to transform a historic building on the site into lab space.
The construction grant enables Children’s to expand and relocate the hospital’s D.C. Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center (DC-IDDRC), which focuses on treatments for kids with developmental disabilities such as autism, epilepsy, cerebral palsy, intellectual disability and inherited metabolic disorders. That will encompass about 30,000 square feet, a Children’s spokeswoman confirmed to the Washington Business Journal.
That center will move to the former Armed Forces Institute of Pathology Building on the campus, and “offer highly cost-effective…
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