Louisiana Biomedical Research Network (LBRN)

路易斯安那州INBRE的这项提案建立在我们当前项目成功的基础上，旨在通过更新和扩大与该州生物医学研究社区的合作，提高我们主要本科院校(PUI)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和州内所有生物医学研究密集型机构之间的基础设施和智力网络。根据与INBRE三个主题领域相匹配的使命，五个PUI被选为初级PUI机构，以获得研究奖项。这些主题(计算和结构生物学、疾病分子机制、治疗学和预防医学)反映了研究校园的优势以及我们的PUI合作伙伴校园和教师的战略计划和愿景。这5个PUI的教职员工竞争INBRE内的试点和全面研究项目。所有四年制大学的本科生、研究生和教职员工在暑假期间参加研究密集型大学的资助研究项目。为了促进我们的目标，我们开发了两个核心(生物信息学、生物统计学和计算生物学以及分子和细胞生物学)，以提供研究支持、培训和访问研究基础设施。在所有这些活动的基础上，将定期进行以指标为导向的评估，以评估我们在发展个人研究人员、增强PUI生物医学研究能力、外展活动和有效利用核心方面的进展。 我们在我们的方法上取得了重大进展、变化和改进。加上教职员工的承诺，州内大学和路易斯安那州董事会120万美元的匹配显然将达到我们的目标和国家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 primaly 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 compete 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.