--- title: 'Funding Daily Summary: What Happened on October 13, 2026' headline: Southern Research gets $8 million NIH grant for research methods hub description: The Birmingham facility will develop and test approaches intended to better represent human biology and reduce animal testing. url: https://thebench.bio/news/funding/2026-10-13 topic: funding date: '2026-10-13' covers: - '2026-10-13' date_published: '2026-10-13T12:01:28Z' date_modified: '2026-10-13T12:01:28Z' tags: - Funding sources: 1 publisher: TheBench.Bio --- # Funding Daily Summary: What Happened on October 13, 2026 **Southern Research gets $8 million NIH grant for research methods hub** The Birmingham facility will develop and test approaches intended to better represent human biology and reduce animal testing. ## Today in brief An $8 million NIH grant will fund Southern Research’s planned shared-use facility for developing and evaluating new research methods. [1] ## NIH grant backs Southern Research methods facility The planned Translational Hub for Research, Innovation, Validation, and Excellence, or THRIVE, will develop and validate new approach methodologies, which are intended to better represent human biology and reduce reliance on animal testing in drug development. [1] Southern Research plans to make the facility’s models, data, and scientific expertise available to government researchers and biotech and pharmaceutical companies. [1] The facility will be built in Birmingham beside Station 41, Southern Research’s commercialization hub. [1] Harry Ledebur said THRIVE will benchmark the methods and produce evidence to support their use in drug development and regulatory decisions. [1] ## The day in numbers - **$8 million**: NIH grant for Southern Research’s planned shared-use facility [1] ## Also published - [Bambusa, Aspen and Tang added to IPO pipeline](), pharmaphorum ## Sources 1. [Southern Research secures NIH funding for drug testing hub](), Pharmaceutical Technology, 2026-10-13 --- TheBench.Bio wrote this from the reporting cited above, with a language model drafting and editing. [1]: