NIH IDeA in Delaware

Date: 07-01-2004
Status: Open
Contact(s): Jeanette Miller
Link(s): DE IDeA
   
Details: The Delaware IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) is a five year program established in July 2004 with funding provided by the National Center for Research Resources at the National Institutes of Health (NIH-NCRR). The Delaware INBRE kickoff meeting took place August 19, 2004 at DBI.

The Delaware INBRE builds on the highly successful Delaware BRIN program that was established in 2001 under a grant by NIH-NCRR. The Delaware BRIN established a statewide network linking Delaware institutions of higher education and Delaware’s largest hospital system to establish a statewide infrastructure in support of a growing effort to build a biomedical research capacity in Delaware.

The purpose of the Delaware INBRE is to deliver, over the five-year term of the grant, a statewide pipeline of capable and competitive medical research personnel who can compete for and win NIH-funded research grants. The primary goals of the Delaware INBRE are to:
support junior and early career faculty in mentored biomedical research;
involve undergraduate institutions and their students in the research process;
strengthen the existing biomedical research infrastructure;and
improve biomedical workforce development.
The Delaware INBRE will be implemented through six core activities
  • Administration
  • Research
  • Centralized Research Instrumentation
  • Bioinformatics
  • Undergraduate Research Experience
  • Outreach
Under the Research Core, the Delaware INBRE program supports 15 multidisciplinary research projects, each comprised of a junior faculty and a senior faculty mentor. The research projects are organized within four research themes:Biomedical, Biotechnology,Bioinformatics,Public Health.

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This material is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. EPS-0408729.