UW NORTHERN ROCKIES REGIONAL BRIN

怀俄明的BRIN代表了怀俄明大学（UW）、怀俄明社区学院、爱达荷大学和蒙大拿大学之间充满活力的内部和州际伙伴关系。由于西澳大学是怀俄明州唯一一所授予四年制高等教育学位的机构，西澳大学的BRIN战略是建立一个协作网络，包括怀俄明州的社区学院和两个邻近州（爱达荷州和蒙大拿州）的研究机构，这些研究机构参与了华盛顿、怀俄明州、阿拉斯加州、蒙大拿州和爱达荷州（WWAMI）医学教育计划。BRIN的提议提供了一种机制，使这三个州各机构的生物医学研究人员可以组成一个学者社区。该项目整合了整个威斯康星大学各部门、学科和学院的研究和教育，并与怀俄明州的社区学院、州机构、医疗家庭实践住院医师中心以及蒙大拿州和爱达荷州的两所大学合作。研究网络——基于协作和指导的人际关系以及系统的基础设施——将通过为有前途的初级研究人员和学生提供指导来加强教育，同时让他们参与尖端生物医学研究，实施有效的培训计划，并收集数据以记录结果并确定需要改进的领域。这三个州的生物医学研究人员将能够获得数据、仪器、设施和跨学科合作伙伴关系，而这些在任何一个单独的机构都是无法获得的。此外，该BRIN将为资源共享提供激励和奖励，并为有前途的初级研究人员和学生提供机会，让他们在接受指导和跨学科交叉培训的同时参与前沿研究。在这样做的过程中，西澳大学北落基山脉地区的BRIN将为怀俄明州、爱达荷州和蒙大拿州及其机构提供一个机会，以达到在NIH舞台上具有竞争力所必需的临界数量的研究人员，否则几乎肯定会逃避这些研究人员。

Wyoming's BRIN represents a dynamic intra- and interstate partnership among the University of Wyoming (UW), Wyoming's community colleges, the University of Idaho, and the University of Montana. Since UW is the only four-year, post-secondary degree-granting institution in the state of Wyoming, UW's BRIN strategy is to develop a collaborative network that includes the community colleges in Wyoming and research institutions from two neighboring states-Idaho and Montana-that participate in the Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho (WWAMI) Medical Education Program. This BRIN proposal provides a mechanism whereby biomedical researchers at institutions throughout the three states can form a community of scholars. This project integrates research and education across departments, disciplines, and colleges throughout UW and with Wyoming's community colleges, state agencies, and medical family practice residency centers and with two universities in Montana and Idaho. The research network-both the interpersonal relationships based on collaboration and mentoring and the system's infrastructure-will enhance education by providing mentoring for promising junior investigators and students while engaging them in cutting edge biomedical research implementing effective training programs, and gathering data to document outcomes and identify areas needing improvement. Biomedical researchers in all three states will have access to data, instruments, facilities, and inter-disciplinary partnerships that simply are not available at any one of the individual institutions. Further, this BRIN will provide incentives and rewards for resource sharing, as well as opportunities for promising junior investigators and students to participate in cutting-edge research while being mentored and receiving interdisciplinary cross training. In doing so, the UW Northern Rockies Regional BRIN will provide Wyoming, Idaho and Montana, and their institutions with an opportunity to achieve the critical mass of researchers necessary to become competitive in the NIH arena, something that would otherwise could otherwise almost certainly elude them.