Advancing Competitive Biomedical Research in Puerto Rico

PRAABRE的这一更新标志着我们在努力促进波多黎各生物医学研究基础设施的持续发展方面向前迈出了一步。这种持续发展是通过实施一个加强和凝聚力的结构，改善共同的科学和教育利益，合作和新创建的指导倡议的整合来实现的。PRAABRE的结构由以下部分组成：行政、生物信息学、科学网络、集中研究和仪器以及科学技术和教育。行政核心为整个PRAABRE提供方案指导。新的指导倡议将使参与机构在所有干预级别的指导做法标准化，从本科生研究到教师一级的指导研究。该倡议还将协调肯塔基州INBRE人员每年举办的格兰披治研讨会。行政核心还将通过与外部咨询委员会和外部独立评估员的密切互动，组织对PRAABRE的总体形成性和附加性评估进程。生物信息学核心将积极促进和刺激生物信息学研究，合作和咨询服务的发展。这个核心亦会负责维持参与院校的高效能第二代互联网网络功能。我们提供生物医学研究电子信息的倡议也将由生物信息学核心协调。科学网络将在PRAABRE主持11个INBRE赞助的研究项目，所有这些项目都被组织到生物医学科学的重点领域。中央研究和仪器核心集成了在UPR里约Piedras和医学科学校园由以前的BRIN和INBRE周期，以及COBRE和RCMI，所有NCRR计划建立的相应设施。科学和技术能力和教育核心将主办PRAABRE研讨会系列，技术转让奖，教师暑期实习，继续教育和技术能力研讨会，以及车轮上的科学项目，一个K-12倡议。这个PRAABRE核心还将帮助协调PRAABRE学生在肯塔基州的暑期实习，这是肯塔基州INBRE所涵盖的一项倡议。该更新申请的一个特殊之处在于不同核心之间的合作，这使得拟议的努力成为波多黎各岛思想、教育和生物医学研究的真正网络。

This renewal of PRAABRE represents a step forward in our efforts to foster the continued development of the biomedical research infrastructure in Puerto Rico. Such continued development is achieved through the implementation of a strengthened and cohesive structure with improved integration of common scientific and educational interests, collaborations, and a newly created Mentoring Initiative. The structure of PRAABRE is represented in the following components: Administrative, Bioinformatics, Scientific Network, Centralized Research and Instrumentation, and Science and Technology and Education. The Administrative Core provides the programmatic direction for the entire PRAABRE. The new Mentoring Initiative will standardize mentoring practices among participating Institutions at all levels of intervention, from undergraduate student research to mentored research at the faculty level. This initiative will also coordinate Grantsmanship Workshops offered by Kentucky INBRE personnel on a yearly basis. The Administrative Core, via a close interaction with the External Advisory Committee and an External Independent Evaluator, will also organize the overall formative and additive evaluation process of PRAABRE. The Bioinformatics Core will assertively foster and stimulate the development of bioinformatics research, collaborations, and consulting services. This core will also be responsible for maintaining high performance lnternet-2 network capabilities at participating Institutions. Our initiative for providing Access to Biomedical Research Electronic Information will also be coordinated by the Bioinformatics Core. The Scientific Network will host 11 INBRE sponsored research projects in PRAABRE, all organized into thrust areas within the biomedical sciences. The Centralized Research and Instrumentation Core integrates the corresponding facilities established at the UPR-Rio Piedras and Medical Sciences Campuses by prior BRIN and INBRE cycles, as well as by COBRE and RCMI, all NCRR programs. The Science and Technology Competene and Education Core will host the PRAABRE Seminar Series, Technology Transfer Awards, Faculty Summer Internships, Continued Education and Technology Competence Workshops, and the Science-on-Wheels project, a K-12 initiative. This PRAABRE Core will also help coordinate Summer Internships in Kentucky for PRAABRE students, an Initiative covered by the Kentucky INBRE. A special quality of this renewal application is the collaborations among the distinct cores, which makes the proposed efforts a true networking of ideas, education, and biomedical research in the Island of Puerto Rico.