KY IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence

描述(由申请人提供)： 肯塔基州INBRE服务于全州范围内的使命，即建设具有生物医学和健康相关研究和研究培训能力的可持续基础设施。在这项申请中，路易斯维尔大学和肯塔基大学这两个研究密集型机构将与我们的地区分支机构合作，包括东肯塔基大学、莫尔黑德州立大学、北肯塔基大学和西肯塔基大学，并与一些外展机构合作，继续发展一个高度协作和成功的网络。我们网络的目标是建立具有竞争力的研究，这将成为我们的学生在生物医学和健康相关科学方面进行出色培训的基础。我们计划发展和壮大我们的多学科研究网络，以功能基因组学为主要主题。以可持续性为重点，我们将继续为初级研究人员的发展研究项目提供资金，同时提供关键的指导，以及基因组学和生物信息学所需的基础设施支持。我们的集中式基因组核心设施将为微阵列和下一代测序技术提供最先进的设备以及合格的技术支持。同样，我们将继续在生物信息学方面建立关键的专业知识和基础设施，为高含量和/或高通量数据提供数据分析服务。我们已经建立了生物信息学的本科生和研究生培训计划。在快速变化的生物医学研究世界中，这些设施和服务对于为我们的下一代研究人员提供独立的途径至关重要。我们将为初级教师提供成为独立调查人员所需的所有工具，从而建立网络可持续性，同时为我们的学生提供高质量的研究培训体验。总而言之，我们的战略旨在建立一个具有生物医学和健康相关研究和研究培训能力的可持续基础设施。这一战略将有助于肯塔基州联邦高技能劳动力的发展。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Kentucky INBRE serves a statewide mission to build a sustainable infrastructure with a capacity for biomedical and health-related research and research training. In this application, the two research intensive institutions, the University of Louisville and the University of Kentucky, will partner with our regional comprehensive affiliates including Eastern Kentucky University, Morehead State University, Northern Kentucky University and Western Kentucky University, and with a number of outreach institutions, to continue the development of a highly collaborative and successful network. The goal of our network is to build competitive research, which will serve as the foundation for excellent training of our students in the biomedical and health-related sciences. We plan to develop and grow our multi-disciplinary research network with an overarching theme of functional genomics. With an emphasis on sustainability, we will continue to fund developmental research projects for our junior investigators, while providing critical mentoring, as well as the requisite infrastructure support for genomics and bioinformatics. Our centralized genomics core facility will provide access to state-of-the-art equipment for microarray and next generation sequencing technologies along with qualified technical support. Similarly, we will continue to build a critical mass of expertise and infrastructure in bioinformatics to provide data analysis services for high content and/or high throughput data. We have built undergraduate and graduate training programs in bioinformatics. In the rapidly changing world of biomedical research, these facilities and services are essential to providing a pathway to independence for our next generation of investigators. We will provide junior faculty with ail of the tools necessary to become independent investigators, thereby building network sustainability, and at the same time provide for high quality research training experiences for our students. In summary, our strategy is designed to build a sustainable infrastructure with capacity for biomedical and health-related research arid research training. This strategy will aid the development of a highly skilled workforce in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.