UW NORTHERN ROCKIES REGIONAL BRIN

怀俄明州的BRIN代表着怀俄明大学(UW)、怀俄明州社区学院、爱达荷州大学和蒙大拿州大学之间充满活力的州内和州际合作伙伴关系。由于威斯康星大学是怀俄明州唯一一所授予四年制大专学位的院校，威斯康星州大学的布林战略是建立一个合作网络，其中包括怀俄明州的社区学院以及来自两个相邻州--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州、怀俄明州、阿拉斯加州、蒙大拿州和爱达荷州(WWAMI)医学教育项目。这项布林提案提供了一种机制，使这三个州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州各系、学科和学院的研究和教育，并与怀俄明州的社区学院、州立机构和医学家庭实践驻留中心以及蒙大拿州和爱达荷州的两所大学进行了整合。研究网络--基于协作和指导的人际关系和系统的基础设施--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。所有三个州的生物医学研究人员都将能够获得数据、仪器、设施和跨学科合作伙伴关系，而这些都是任何一个单独的机构都无法获得的。此外，BRIN将为资源共享提供激励和奖励，以及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接受跨学科交叉培训的同时参与尖端研究。通过这样做，威斯康星州北落基山脉地区布林将为怀俄明州、爱达荷州和蒙大拿州及其机构提供机会，以获得在NIH领域具有竞争力所需的临界数量的研究人员，否则这些研究人员几乎肯定会逃脱。

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.