The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has awarded Nashville CARES, Street Works and Neighborhood Health a multi-million dollar grant to be rolled out over the next five years. This funding will be used to develop MyHouse, a first-of-its-kind, comprehensive LGBTQI community health services center with a goal to reduce new HIV infections, increase access to care and optimize health outcomes for people living with or at risk for HIV/AIDS.

Vanderbilt University, Meharry Medical College and the Tennessee Department of Health have received a five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to establish the Tennessee Center for AIDS Research. Simon Mallal, MBBS, the Major E.B. Stahlman Professor of Infectious Diseases and Inflammation at Vanderbilt, is principal investigator. Co-directors of the new center are David Haas, MD, professor of Medicine, Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology and Pharmacology at Vanderbilt, and Duane Smoot, MD, professor and chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at Meharry.

Twenty-two Middle Tennessee nonprofit agencies will receive a collective $1.2 million in grants from Baptist Healing Trust in the third quarter. The grants support health-related services for the most vulnerable people in Middle Tennessee. BHT awards similar grants quarterly, with an annual award of $5 million.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has received a five-year, $12.8 million grant from the federal government to develop better ways to predict how patients will respond to the drugs they’re given. Vanderbilt’s is one of three “P50” grants awarded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to establish specialized research centers for pharmacogenomics in precision medicine.