West Virginia IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (WV-INBRE)

西弗吉尼亚州是一个从国家卫生研究院获得拨款的成功率历史上最低的州，并被指定为IDEA州。马歇尔大学(MU)与西弗吉尼亚大学(WVU)合作，获得了IDEA生物医学研究卓越网络(INBRE)奖(WV-INBRE)，以帮助西弗吉尼亚大学主要本科院校(PUI)发展生物医学研究，并加强这些PUI进入生物医学研究领域的学生的渠道。目前的WV-INBRE续签申请将建立在现有计划的成功基础上。为此，墨尔本大学将与西弗吉尼亚大学合作，作为一个由11个本科生机构组成的研究网络的牵头机构。该网络的多学科研究主题将是细胞和分子生物学，重点是心血管疾病和癌症。四个PUI将有五个主要研究项目，两个PUI将获得学院研究发展奖(FRDA)，以表彰有前途的初级研究人员。另外五个PUI有资格获得FRDA的生物医学研究人员。这些学校共同构成了西弗吉尼亚大学研究网络的核心。已经建立了行政、生物信息学和基因组学核心，以促进合作伙伴研究所的科学家和学生的研究进展、指导和培训以及职业发展。将扩大成功的以社区为基础的参与性研究核心阿巴拉契亚心血管研究网络。此外，将加强与WV Cobres的联系，并将启动与WV的健康科学技术学院(HSTA)计划的互动。计划旨在为本科生提供研究机会，这将有助于为这些学生提供进入健康相关研究职业的管道。将为没有重大项目的PUI生物医学研究人员提供额外的计划和支持，以增强他们的生物医学研究潜力。此外，通过提供大量的研讨会、研究培训和指导，以及使用最先进的核心设施，WV-INBRE将有助于增强WV员工的科学和技术知识基础。

West Virginia is a State that has had a historically low success rate in obtaining grant awards from the National Institutes of Health and has been designated as an IDeA State. Marshall University (MU), in partnership with West Virginia University (WVU), was awarded an IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) award (WV-INBRE) to help develop biomedical research at WV primarily undergraduate institutions (PUIs) and to enhance the pipeline of students from these PUIs entering the biomedical research field as a career. The current WV-INBRE renewal application will build on the successes of the existing program. To this end, MU, in partnership with WVU, will serve as lead institutions to a research network consisting of eleven undergraduate institutions. The multi-disciplinary research theme for this network will be cellular and molecular biology with an emphasis on cardiovascular disease and cancer. Four PUIs will house five major research projects and two PUIs will have Faculty Research Development Awards (FRDAs) for promising junior investigators. Five additional PUIs have biomedical researchers eligible for FRDAs. Collectively, these schools comprise the heart of the WV research network. Administrative, Bioinformatics and Genomic Cores have been established to facilitate the research progress, mentoring and training, and career development of scientists and students at the partner instutions. The successful community-based participatory research core Appalachian Cardiovascular Research Network (ACoRN) will be expanded. In addition, ties to WV COBREs will be strengthened and interactions with WV's Health Science Technology Academy (HSTA) program will be initiated. Programs are proposed to provide research opportunities for undergraduates students that will help serve as a pipeline for these students into health related research careers. Additional programs and support for PUI biomedical research investigators without major projects will be made available to strengthen their biomedical research potential. In addition, through providing numerous workshops, seminars, research training and mentoring, and access to state-of-the-art core facilities, WV-INBRE will help enhance the science and technology knowledge base of the WV workforce.