University of Arkansas for Medical Science gets $10.5 million grant for Cancer Institute expansion

News release: TheUniversity of Arkansas for Medical Science has received a $10.5 million construction grant from the National Institutes of Health to help pay for construction of the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute. The grant, part of the 2009 federal stimulus package, will pay for completion of two research laboratory floors in the institute’s 12-story expansion, which is scheduled to open its first phase this summer.