Pennington Biomedical Research Center’s Botanical Research Center will receive $9.2 million over the next five years with the renewal of a grant from the National Institutes of Health, according to a Pennington news release.
Pennington, in collaboration with Rutgers University, has studied native plants and botanical extracts since 2005 at the Center for Research on Botanicals and Metabolic Syndrome.
As one of five NIH-funded botanical research centers in the country, Pennington’s is the only one to focus specifically on obesity and diabetes as well as metabolic syndrome and heart disease.
This is BRC’s third five-year renewal since the program began as it continues to search for long term solutions to these chronic illnesses, according to the release.