MT INBRE II: A Multidisciplinary Research Network

MT INBRE III有两个主要目标：1）维护和进一步发展蒙大拿网络和学生管道 并利用这个网络来解决蒙大拿州的农村和土著社区面临的独特问题， 健康差距和2）利用其网络，以加强蒙大拿州的农村和土著之间的合作 社区、部落委员会和其他学术机构，并使部落委员会成为部落健康研究的渠道， 农村卫生研究的保留地和PUI管道。该计划将支持和指导 来自主要本科院校（PUI）、研究型大学和部落学院（TC）的调查人员 通过社区参与项目，旨在解决蒙大拿州农村和部落的健康差距， 社区. MT INBRE III将扩大与蒙大拿州其他项目和机构的伙伴关系， 在西部IDEA区域网络中，最大限度地利用资源、合作和机会 提供给蒙大拿州的研究人员和学生。该方案的具体目标包括：1）加强 蒙大拿州的生物医学和生物信息学基础设施，通过持续发展共享设施， 研究合作、重点工作组和培训机会，通过继续 支持蒙大拿州立大学（MSU）的社区参与和生物信息学核心， 为全州MT INBRE III网络的调查人员提供服务; 2）开发一个连续的管道， 蒙大拿州的原住民和非原住民学生的职业生涯在健康研究和增加科学和 国家劳动力的技术知识; 3）指导和发展健康差距 社会和行为科学的研究人员，并与传染病研究人员合作， 环境健康调查人员维持和发展跨学科生物医学研究网络; 目标4：制定和支持MT INBRE III网络调查员的可持续研究举措， 将减轻蒙大拿州农村和美洲原住民社区的健康差距。

MT INBRE III has two main goals: 1) maintain and further develop the Montana network and student pipeline and utilize this network to address the unique problems Montana's rural and Native communities face in health disparities and 2) utilize its network to strengthen collaborations among Montana's rural and Native communities, TCs and other academic institutions and to make TCs a conduit for tribal health research on the reservations and PUIs conduits for rural health research. The program will support and mentor investigators from primarily undergraduate institutions (PUIs), research universities, and tribal colleges (TCs) through community engagement projects designed to address health disparities in Montana's rural and tribal communities. MT INBRE III will expand its partnerships with other programs and institutions in Montana and in the Western IDeA Regional Network to maximize the resources, collaborations, and opportunities available to Montana's researchers and students. The program's Specific Aims include 1) strengthening Montana's biomedical and bioinformatics infrastructure through continued development of shared facilities, research collaborations, focused working groups, and training opportunities, accomplished by continuing to support at Montana State University (MSU) the Community Engagement and Bioinformatics Cores that will serve investigators in the statewide MT INBRE III network; 2) developing a continuous pipeline for Montana's Native and non-Native students to careers in health research and increasing the scientific and technological knowledge of the state's workforce; 3) mentoring and developing health disparities investigators in the social and behavioral sciences and partnering them with infectious disease and environmental health investigators to sustain and grow an interdisciplinary biomedical research network; and Aim 4: developing and supporting sustainable research initiatives by MT INBRE III network investigators that will mitigate health disparities in Montana's rural and Native American communities.