VCU has reached agreement with Inova Health Systems to hire high-level research faculty who would work both for the university and the Genomics & Bioinformatics Research Institute soon under construction – with $20 million in state support – at the Inova Center for Personalized Health in Fairfax County. The Inova genomics institute is a collaboration among the Northern Virginia health system, the University of Virginia and George Mason University – two higher education institutions that also have submitted proposals to recruit joint faculty for research at the new facility.