KU MED CENTER is now a Alzheimer's Disease Center (Kansas City: university, centers)

[Versatile]

Kansas Med Center gets $6 million federal grant

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) - The University of Kansas Medical Center has received a five-year, $6 million federal grant as part of its designation as a national Alzheimer Disease Center.

The center announced Monday that the grant from the National Institutes of Health put it among 29 institutions that have been nationally designated as Alzheimer's Disease Centers. The new program will be called the University of Kansas Alzheimer's Disease Center.

[kcmo]

KU Med seems to have really taken itself to the next level in the last ten years. They are seriously building up the campus and now it even looks like some spin-off development is even starting to occur on the KS side along Rainbow etc. There is no reason that could not develop into a major research and medical district like you find in many large cities. KC seems to be lacking that to some degree, as least in a concentrated area. Children's Mercy has also become one of the country's top children's hospitals in the past decade or so.

With Hospital Hill, KU Med and Stowers/St Lukes, there is a golden triangle of top notch medical/research facilities in urban KC and one more reason that KC needs better urban core transit.

[aragx6]

I totally agree kcmo. And the KU Med Center adds a (very much needed) white collar segment to the Volker area.