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• The UND medical school will use its grant money to support work at a biomedical research center on diseases including cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
• "Researchers at UND are actively working to understand the bases for these diseases and to develop new strategies for treatments or preventions," said Joyce Ohm, an assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology.
• The National Institutes of Health, a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the nation's medical research agency.

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