Louisiana Biomedical Research Network (LBRN)

描述（由申请人提供）：这个路易斯安那州INBRE提案建立在我们当前项目的成功基础上，旨在通过与本州生物医学研究界的更新和扩大合作，提高我们主要的本科机构（PUI）合作伙伴的生物医学研究能力。我们将支持并继续发展该州所有公立大学和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。其中五所大学被选为主要的大学，根据它们的任务符合INBRE的三个主题领域，获得研究奖。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）反映了研究型校园的优势以及我们PUI合作校园和教师的战略计划和愿景。这5个PUIs的教员在INBRE内竞争试点和全面的研究项目。来自所有四年制PUIs的本科生，研究生和教师在研究密集型大学的夏季竞争并参与资助的研究项目。为了实现我们的目标，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，分子和细胞生物学）来提供研究支持，培训和获取研究基础设施。覆盖所有这些活动的将是我们在培养个体研究人员、增强PUI生物医学研究能力、推广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。加上教师的承诺，州内的大学和路易斯安那州董事会120万美元的匹配将明显满足我们的目标和国家INBRE计划的目标。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): 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.