(01-23) 18:16 PST Fresno, Calif. (AP) --
Federal health authorities are awarding Fresno State a five-year, $4.5 million grant to create a biomedical research center.
The center will focus on health disparities in the community, and will sponsor investigations including a study of pesticides' effects on breast cells of Hispanic farmworkers and the relationship between asthma, air pollution and viral infections.
California State University, Fresno plans to use part of the money to buy sophisticated laboratory equipment.
Fresno State was one of 19 universities nationwide, and two in California, that won grants from the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities, a division of the National Institutes of Health.
Federal health authorities are awarding Fresno State a five-year, $4.5 million grant to create a biomedical research center.
The center will focus on health disparities in the community, and will sponsor investigations including a study of pesticides' effects on breast cells of Hispanic farmworkers and the relationship between asthma, air pollution and viral infections.
California State University, Fresno plans to use part of the money to buy sophisticated laboratory equipment.
Fresno State was one of 19 universities nationwide, and two in California, that won grants from the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities, a division of the National Institutes of Health.
