Emory, Children's Healthcare Secure $4M Grant

and Children’s Healthcare recently secured a $4 million grant to help build a new research building.

“More than half” of the five-story building will be dedicated to pediatric research, according to a report in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The AJC reported the building will include a two-story bridge that will connect with Emory-Children’s Center, which is an outpatient center. The bridge will be dedicated to the late Dr. George W. Brumley, the former head of Emory University's Department of Pediatrics and former medical director at .

The $4 million grant comes from the Zeist Foundation, an Atlanta based nonprofit that “seeks to improve the lives of children, youth and families in the areas of health, education and arts and culture.”

Construction on the new medical facility broke ground in June and is expected to be completed in April 2013. The $90 million project is mostly financed through donations and grants.