Supplement for South Carolina BRIN - 1P20 RR16461

描述(由申请者提供)：本补充提案旨在提高我们的能力，以实现BRIN计划的三个主要目标--发展全州的研究能力，建立研究机构和本科机构的网络，以及发展这些机构之间的支线系统，以及3)加强针对少数族裔学生和机构的研究活动。为了实现这些目标，我们建议：1)扩大生物信息学核心(BC)的活动，以便为生物信息学活动提供更强有力的专业支持，并增加全州范围内获得生物信息学资源的机会；2)增加对我们的合作研究计划(CRP)的支持，该计划在全州的导师、指导和外联机构的研究人员和学生之间建立研究网络；3)支持购买主要仪器，以增强福尔曼大学(Fu)、南卡罗来纳医科大学和南卡罗来纳大学医学院(USCSM)的研究活动的基础设施；4)扩大SCBRIN网络，包括作为SC-Brin的额外指导机构的私立黑人学院或大学(HBCU)，并支持CU基因组研究能力的发展；5)通过支持雇用新教师，增加该州唯一公立HBCU南卡罗来纳州立大学(SCSU)的教员研究潜力，从而加强两个相邻的HBCU、CU和SCSU之间的基因组学/蛋白质组学研究互动；以及6)支持南加州大学公共卫生学院制定一项新的外展计划，解决少数民族和农村健康计划，包括肥胖和糖尿病，并直接参与南加州大学的平行计划。这些对SC-BRIN的增强将大大加强SC-BRIN网络，并提高我们实现BRIN计划总体目标的能力。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This Supplement proposal for the SC-BRIN is designed to enhance our ability to address three major objectives of the BRIN program - development of statewide research capacity, networking of research and undergraduate institutions and development of a feeder system between these institutions, and 3) enhancement of research activity for minority students and institutions. To achieve these goals, we propose: 1) to expand the activities of the Bioinformatics Core (BC) in order to provide stronger professional support for bioinformatics activities and to increase statewide access to bioinformatics resources; 2) to increase support for our Collaborative Research Program (CRP), which develops research networks among researchers and students at Mentor, Mentored and Outreach institutions throughout the state; 3) to support the purchase of major instrumentation to enhance the infrastructure for research activities at Furman University (FU), the Medical University of South Carolina, and the University of South Carolina School of Medicine (USCSM); 4) to expand the SCBRIN network by including CU, a private Historically Black College or University (HBCU), as an additional Mentored Institutions of the SC-BRIN, and supporting the development of the genomics research capacity at CU; 5) to increase faculty research potential at South Carolina State University (SCSU), the state's only public HBCU, by supporting the hiring of a new faculty, thereby enhancing the genomics/proteomics research interaction between two neighboring Mentored HBCUs, CU and SCSU; and 6) to support the development of a new outreach program from the USC School of Public Health, addressing minority and rural health initiatives, including obesity and diabetes, and directly involving parallel programs at SCSU. These enhancements to the SC-BRIN will substantially strengthen the SC-BRIN network and increase our ability to achieve the overall goals of the BRIN program.