New Hampshire IDeA Network of Biological Research Excellence (NH_INBRE)

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议的新罕布什尔州IDeA生物研究卓越网络（NH-INBRE）将旨在1)增加合作机构的学生和教师参与原创科学研究的机会；2)扩大牵头机构和合作机构正在进行的研究基础和研究能力，并支持相关的研究文化；3)增加合作院校毕业生继续从事生物医学研究或就业的频率；4)加强对新农村劳动力的科技培训；5)加强现代生物医学研究所需的生物信息学基础设施。提议的主要机构是达特茅斯医学院（Dartmouth Medical School）和新罕布什尔大学（University of New Hampshire, Durham）。达特茅斯医学院将容纳NH-INBRE的行政核心。拟议的合作机构包括新罕布什尔州的6所四年制本科院校和2所两年制社区学院。NH-INBRE的主题将是细胞和分子生物学、微生物学和环境毒理学以及行为科学。NH-INBRE将由一组有成就的教师指导，他们都是联邦政府资助的活跃研究实验室的负责人。该小组将由首席研究员Ronald K. Taylor博士领导。与将整个管理职能置于首席研究员和项目协调员手中不同，这个团队概念将作为一个整体，其组成部分能够同时有效地建立、指导和评估NH-INBRE项目的进展和目标。在准备提案的过程中，这种团队方法有效地发挥了作用。提出了各种各样的指标，用于持续实时评估和改进NH-INBRE。NH-INBRE计划是围绕着原创性科学研究是大学生科学训练的重要组成部分这一相关理念来组织的，扩大我们提议的合作机构的学生在校园内参与原创性科学研究对于在新罕布什尔州的高等教育机构和整个州内灌输生物医学研究文化至关重要。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed New Hampshire IDeA Network of Biological Research Excellence (NH-INBRE) will be designed to 1) increase opportunities for students and faculty at Partner institutions to participate in original scientific research; 2) expand the base of ongoing research and research capacity at the Lead and Partner institutions and support the associated research cultures; 3) increase the frequency at which students who graduate from Partner institutions continue doing biomedical research in graduate education or employment; 4) enhance the science and technology training of the NH workforce; 5) enhance the bioinformatics Infrastructure that is required for modern biomedical research. The proposed lead institutions are Dartmouth Medical School, which will house the NH-INBRE administrative core and the University of New Hampshire, Durham. The proposed Partner institutions Include 6 four-year primarily undergraduate Institutions and 2 two-year community colleges within New Hampshire. The themes of the NH-INBRE will be cellular and molecular biology, microbiology and environmental toxicology, and behavioral science. NH-INBRE will be directed by a team of accomplished faculty, all of whom direct active, federally funded research laboratories themselves. This team will be led by Principal Investigator Dr. Ronald K. Taylor. This team concept, as opposed to placing the entire administrative functions in the hands of only the Principal Investigator and Program Coordinator, will function as a unit with its components able to work simultaneously to efficiently establish, direct, and evaluate the progress and goals of the NH-INBRE program. This team approach functioned efficiently during the preparation of this proposal. A wide variety of metrics is proposed to be utilized for continual real-time evaluation and improvement of the NH-INBRE. The NH-INBRE plan Is organized around the related ideas that original scientific research is a vital part of scientific training for college students, and expanding the participation of students at our proposed Partner institutions in original scientific research on their campuses Is essential for instilling a culture of biomedical research within New Hampshire's Institutions of higher education and the state overall. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE (provided by the applicant): The human resource of trained researchers is a crucial component of successful biomedical research that can improve health and healthcare. Currently many potentially productive researchers coming out of undergraduate training choose other careers related to science or leave science because they have not experienced original research. Similarly, at primarily undergraduate colleges the research done by the fully research-trained faculty is limited by inadequate resource Investment. NH-lNBRE's programs would support the development of these underutilized human research resources and Increase the research training of the workforce of New Hampshire.