$79M University of Michigan & NIH to Spur Diversity in Biomedical Health Sciences—Does Recent Supreme Court Case Impact Such Initiatives?

The University of Michigan (U-M) and the National Institutes of Health will jointly invest $79 million to support and recruit 30 new faculty members to the Ann Arbor campus as part of a nationwide effort to enhance inclusion and equity across the biomedical and health sciences community. With a five-year, $15.8 million grant awarded this week from NIH, along with a $63.7 million university investment, U-M will launch the Michigan Program for Advancing Cultural Transformation (M-PACT). The program will be led by Professors Robert Sellers and Reshma Jagsi.

The grant to U-M was one of 15 NIH awards to U.S. colleges and universities, part of the NIH Common Fund Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation (FIRST) Program.