OK COBRE: RECRUITING CORE

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This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. The overall goal of the Oklahoma Center for Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) on Molecular Mechanisms and Genetics of Autoimmunity is to mentor the scientific development of Junior Investigators to achieve outstanding, productive independent research careers and to create the necessary infrastructure to ensure their success in this endeavor. This Recruiting Core, led by J. Donald Capra, M.D. - President of the OMRF - identifies, recruits, and retains outstanding Junior Investigators to replace graduates of this COBRE. Dr. Capra has had phenomenal success in identifying and recruiting outstanding junior faculty to his previous program projects, his ongoing COBRE, and to the OMRF in general. He has used these skills to identify the most promising candidate eligible to receive support from this autoimmunity Center, Dr. Amr Sawalha. Dr. Sawalha has been officially recruited to the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, and will satisfy our milestone of having a new recruit start by July 2005. He will succeed Dr. Swapan Nath as a Junior Investigator once Dr. Nath has officially separated from the Center. Other promising candidates have been identified and approached about joining the COBRE in the next two years, as we hope that we will have two more Junior Investigators graduate from the Center. Recruiting activities will be continuous in this COBRE with the intention of fostering as many early careers for scientists in autoimmunity as is possible.