Excerpt from the Dayton Business Journal
One of Dayton's largest universities is making headway on plans to develop a dedicated neuroimaging center at its main campus in Fairborn.
Funding for the project will be aided by a $1.1 million grant the university received this summer from the U.S. Department of Defense.
Wright State University submitted a request for qualifications last month seeking design-build services to renovate existing space in its Neuroscience Engineering Collaboration building to accommodate the installation of a 3-Tesla Philips MRI scanner.
The $420,000 project would involve construction of an electromagnetic-shielded MRI room, an MRI control room and an equipment room.
The RFQ comes just one month after the university announced receipt of a DoD grant to acquire the MRI scanner. Funding was awarded through a competitive program designed to support academic infrastructure for future research.
The long-term goal is to advance Wright State's collaboration with the Defense Department. Acquiring the scanner will enable DoD researchers and academic partners to study a wide cross-section of topics, from cognitive enhancement to fatigue mitigation.
Currently, researchers at WSU and the Air Force Research Laboratory must pay to use off-campus MRI scanners. The university partners with a local hospital for these services, but access is often limited since hospital personnel also use the scanner for medical purposes.
