Louisiana Biomedical Research Network (LBRN)

这路易斯安那州的INBRE建议建立在我们目前的计划的成功，并寻求通过更新和扩大与生物医学研究界在国家内的合作，以提高我们的主要本科院校（PUI）的合作伙伴的生物医学研究能力。我们将支持并继续发展所有PUI和该州所有生物医学研究密集型机构之间的基础设施和知识网络。其中五所PUI被选为PUI研究奖的主要机构，其依据是它们的使命与INBRE的三个主题领域相吻合。这些主题（计算和结构生物学，疾病的分子机制，治疗和预防医学）反映了研究校园的优势和我们的PUI合作伙伴校园和教师的战略计划和愿景。这5个PUI的教师在INBRE内竞争试点和全面的研究项目。来自所有4年制PUI的本科生，研究生和教师在夏季在研究密集型大学竞争并参加资助的研究项目。为了促进我们的目标，我们已经开发了两个核心（生物信息学，生物统计学和计算生物学，分子和细胞生物学），以提供研究支持，培训和访问研究基础设施。覆盖所有这些活动将是我们在发展个人研究者，增强PUI生物医学研究能力，外展活动和有效使用核心方面的进展的定期指标驱动评估。 我们在方法上取得了重大进展、变化和改进。再加上教师的承诺，州内的大学和路易斯安那州董事会的120万美元的比赛将明显满足我们的目标和国家INBRE计划的目标。

This Louisiana INBRE proposal builds on the success of our current program and seeks to enhance the biomedical research capacity of our primarily undergraduate institutional (PUI) partners through renewed and expanded collaboration with the bio-medical research community within the State. We will support and continue to develop the infrastructural and intellectual network between all PUIs and all of the biomedical research intensive institutions in the state. Five of the PUIs have been chosen as primary PUI institutions for research awards, based on their missions' which fit with the three thematic areas of the INBRE. These themes (Computational and Structural Biology, Molecular Mechanisms of Disease, Therapeutics and Preventive Medicine) reflect the strengths of the research campuses and the strategic plans and visions of our PUI partner campuses and faculty. Faculty of these 5 PUIs competes for pilot and full research projects within the INBRE. Undergraduates, graduate students and faculty from all 4-year PUIs compete and participate in funded research programs during the summer at the research intensive universities. To facilitate our goals we have developed two cores (Bioinformatics, Biostatistics and Computational Biology, and Molecular and Cell Biology) to provide research support, training and access to research infrastructure. Overlaying all of these activities will be the regular metric driven assessment of our progress in developing individual investigators, enhancement of PUI biomedical research capacity, outreach activities, and the effective usage of cores. We have made significant progress, changes and improvements in our approach. Together with the commitment of faculty, the Universities within the State, and the Louisiana Board of Regents match of $1.2 million will clearly meet our goals and that of the national INBRE program.