MT INBRE RESEARCH CORE

这个子项目是利用资源的许多研究子项目之一。 由NIH/NCRR资助的中心拨款提供。对子项目的主要支持 子项目的首席调查员可能是由其他来源提供的， 包括美国国立卫生研究院的其他来源。为子项目列出的总成本可能 表示该子项目使用的中心基础设施的估计数量， 不是由NCRR赠款提供给次级项目或次级项目工作人员的直接资金。 这一核心的具体目标是指导和发展越来越多的传染病、环境健康和健康差距调查人员，主要是本科院校(PUI)、部落学院和该州的两所研究型大学，以维持和发展更具生产力和竞争力的生物医学研究网络。这一目标在行政核心的总体目标中阐明，并与CBPR和生物信息学核心的目标重叠并加强，不仅侧重于研究，而且还侧重于指导初级教员和学生。通过多学科指导团队和由PI、理事会、核心主任和EAC进行的年度项目评估，研究核心为研究人员提供对他们工作的反馈和讨论，帮助完善他们来年的研究计划和里程碑，并就可能的赠款和出版机会以及潜在的合作提供指导。调查人员受到PI和其他指导教师的一对一关注，他们的主要目标是帮助初级调查人员在各自领域取得成功，并为他们的研究努力获得资金。行政核心注重通过将研究纳入社会和行为健康科学来扩大健康差距研究，因此特别注意确定和仔细指导这一年轻的新调查人员群体。 传染病和环境健康领域的31个研究项目，包括7个社会和行为健康科学项目、3个关于健康差距的探索性研究项目、8个关于社区和健康差异核心的项目，以及通过行政补充的2个土著社区研究项目，由MTINBRE提供支持。项目位于该州的五所学士学位学院、所有七所部落学院、蒙大拿大学(密苏拉)和密歇根州立大学。 这31个项目中有12个是研究核心的重点。这些项目负责人中的大多数都有久负盛名的研究项目(其中一些是通过Brin和INBRE I资助的)，并正在努力争取额外的外部资金来维持他们的研究计划。他们中的许多人已经发表了他们的研究成果，并成功地获得了额外的赠款资金。那些拥有更多研究经验的人被定位为优秀的导师，不仅是他们所在机构的初级调查人员，而且是整个网络的初级调查人员。一名项目负责人两年前从INBRE项目毕业，四名项目负责人目前正在毕业。四名新的初级调查人员，汤姆·刘易斯博士(密歇根州立大学比林斯分校)、迈克尔·吉尔伯特博士(密歇根大学-韦斯特分校)、格兰特·霍基特博士(卡罗尔学院)和罗杰·迪尔茨博士(萨利什·库特奈学院)正在接受资助的第二年。该中心的六个项目侧重于生物医学科学领域的教育推广和培养学生渠道。所有网络研究人员都可以通过生物信息学核心和指导团队访问密歇根州立大学博兹曼分校和密苏拉州立大学的共享设施、设备和培训。长期目标是让这些研究人员在他们自己的NIH资金方面具有竞争力。 除了这些研究项目外，两个研究小组继续蓬勃发展，并为项目负责人提供培训、合作和研究支持的有形机制：大天空真菌小组和生物信息用户小组(在生物信息学和基因组学核心中)。

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. Primary support for the subproject and the subproject's principal investigator may have been provided by other sources, including other NIH sources. The Total Cost listed for the subproject likely represents the estimated amount of Center infrastructure utilized by the subproject, not direct funding provided by the NCRR grant to the subproject or subproject staff. The Specific Aim of this core is to mentor and develop the growing number of infectious disease, environmental health, and health disparities investigators at principally undergraduate institutions (PUIs), tribal colleges, and the state's two research universities to sustain and grow an even more productive and competitive biomedical research network. This aim is articulated in the overall goals of the Administrative Core and overlaps with and enhances the aims of both the CBPR and Bioinformatics Cores in its focus not only on research but also on mentoring junior faculty as well as students. Through multidisciplinary mentoring teams and annual project evaluation by the PI, Council, Core Directors, and EAC, the Research Core offers investigators feedback and discussion of their work, help in refining their research plan and milestones for the coming year, and guidance about possible grant and publication opportunities, as well as potential collaborations. Investigators receive one-on-one attention from the PI and other mentoring faculty, whose primary goal is to help position junior investigators for success in their fields and in securing funding for their research efforts. In keeping with the Administrative Core's focus on expanding health disparities research by incorporating research in the social and behavioral health sciences, particular attention is given to identifying and carefully mentoring this young new cohort of investigators. Thirty-one research projects in the areas of infectious disease and environmental health, including 7 social and behavioral health sciences projects, three exploratory research studies on health disparities, 8 projects in the CBPR and Health Disparities Core, and, through an administrative supplement, 2 CBPR projects with Native communities are supported by MT INBRE. Projects are located at five of the state's baccalaureate colleges, all seven Tribal Colleges, the University of Montana (Missoula), and MSU. Twelve of these 31 projects are the focus of the Research Core. Most of these Project Leaders have well-established research projects (some funded through BRIN and INBRE I) and are working toward securing additional extramural funding to sustain their research programs. Many of them have published their research and been successful in obtaining additional grant funding. Those with more research experience are positioned to serve as excellent mentors for up and coming junior investigators not only at their institutions but across the network. One Project Leader graduated from the INBRE program two years ago, and four are currently in the process of graduating. Four new junior investigators, Dr. Tom Lewis (MSU-Billings), Dr. Michael Gilbert (UM-Western), Dr. Grant Hokit (Carroll College), and Dr. Roger Dilts (Salish Kootenai College) are in their second year of funding. Six of the Core's projects focus on educational outreach and developing the student pipeline in the biomedical sciences. All network researchers have access to shared facilities, equipment, and training at MSU-Bozeman and UM-Missoula through the Bioinformatics Core and the mentoring team. The long-term goal is to position these investigators to be competitive for their own NIH funding. In addition to these research projects, two research sub-groups continue to flourish and provide visible mechanisms for providing training, collaborations, and research support for the Project Leaders: the Big Sky Mycology Group and the Bioinformatics Users Group (in the Bioinformatics and Genomics Core).