PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NDRI, the National Disease Research Interchange, announced that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a $7.6 million grant to NDRI to enable the human tissue science organization to expand its core mission to collect, process, and distribute donated human tissue to hundreds of leading research facilities throughout the US, for the next five years. Since 1980, NDRI has served a vital need providing some 5,000 scientists with more than 300,000 human biomaterials, leading to more than 2,500 papers published in scholarly journals on diseases from diabetes to cancer to HIV and rare diseases. Today NDRI is the leading national organization that connects donated human tissue with the research scientists who need it to develop new therapies and cures for human diseases. NDRI serves almost every disease imaginable.
