South Carolina 2004 Research Infrastructure Improvement Grant

南卡罗来纳州EPSCoR （SC EPSCoR）的目标是：(1)通过利用其主要研究型大学的科技资源来提高该州的研究与开发（R&amp；D）竞争力；(2)促进学术界、政府和私营研发部门之间富有成效的长期合作伙伴关系。与这些目标以及EPSCoR的总体使命相一致，南卡罗来纳州研究管理局提交的提案将侧重于三个主要研究领域：生物工程和生物技术；基因组学/蛋白质组学，重点是农业/植物基因组学；神经发育，认知和大脑功能。为了实现其目标，南卡罗来纳州将招聘15名终身教职员工，以补充目标领域的现有优势，购买启动和共享设备，以支持新员工，扩大校际合作研究活动，并发展南卡罗来纳州两所历史悠久的黑人学院和大学（HBCUs）的研究能力。作为学术研发的长期全州战略计划发展过程的结果，SC EPSCoR将分别在南卡罗莱纳大学和克拉夫林大学建立生物工程和生物技术基础设施；克莱姆森大学在植物基因发现和生物工程产品方面取得卓越成就；并在南卡罗来纳医科大学建立一个表型组学神经科学中心，用于最先进的大脑和神经功能研究。南卡罗来纳州立大学（该州最大的HBCU）和克拉弗林大学（最古老的私立HBCU）拟议的新教师和设备将扩大他们的本科教育的主要任务，包括研究，从而为本科生提供研究机会。此外，该提案旨在整合各机构的研究成果，使其在其他联邦支持方面具有竞争力，并通过外展活动加强生物工程、神经科学、植物基因组学和生物技术方面的研究生课程。博士后研究员将接受教学方面的培训，同时将研究问题和项目带到以本科院校为主的本科课堂。在教育和推广活动方面，SC EPSCoR建议继续开展合作研究计划（CRP）和小企业创新研究（SBIR）第0阶段倡议。CRP的目标是在南卡罗来纳州的高等教育机构中建立可持续的研究集群。SBIR第0阶段计划将支持针对特定SBIR招标的小型企业，并有可能产生成功的第一阶段提案。

The goals of the South Carolina EPSCoR (SC EPSCoR) are (1) to improve the State's research and development (R&D) competitiveness through the utilization of science and technology resources in its major research universities; and (2) to promote productive, long-term partnerships among academic, government, and the private R&D sectors. Consistent with these goals, as well as with EPSCoR's overall mission, the proposal submitted by the South Carolina Research Authority will focus on three major research areas: biological engineering and biotechnology; genomics/proteomics with an emphasis on agricultural/plant genomics; and neurodevelopment, cognition, and brain function. In order to accomplish its goals, South Carolina will recruit 15 tenure track faculty to complement existing strengths in the targeted areas, purchase start-up and shared equipment to support the new hires and expand interuniversity collaborative research activities, and develop the research capacity at two of South Carolina's Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). As a result of a long-term statewide strategic plan development process for academic R&D, the SC EPSCoR will build biological engineering and biotechnology infrastructure at University of South Carolina and Claflin University, respectively; develop excellence in plant gene discovery and bioengineered products at Clemson University; and establish a Phenomics Neuroscience Center at the Medical University of South Carolina for the state-of-the-art investigations of brain and neural function. New faculty and equipment proposed for South Carolina State University, the State largest HBCU, and Claflin, the oldest private HBCU, will expand their primary mission of undergraduate education to include research and provide thereby research access to undergraduate students.In addition, the proposal pursues both the integration of research efforts at various institutions to make them competitive for other federal support, and the enhancement of graduate programs in biological engineering, neuroscience, plant genomics, and biotechnology through outreach activities. Post-doctoral fellows will receive training in instruction while bringing research issues and projects to the undergraduate classroom of predominantly undergraduate institutions. In terms of education and outreach activities, the SC EPSCoR proposes the continuation of the Collaborative Research Program (CRP), and the Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase 0 initiative. The goal of the CRP is to build sustainable research clusters among South Carolina's institutions of higher education. The SBIR Phase 0 program will support small business that have targeted a specific SBIR solicitation and have the potential to yield a successful Phase I proposal.