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LSU Receives $9.9 Million Grant for New Center!!
BATON ROUGE—The LSU School of Veterinary Medicine has received a $9.9 million grant to establish a Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE). This Center grant from the National Center for Research Resources provides substantial funds into developing faculty for independent funding by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) traditional mechanisms.
The grant will last for five years and it can be competitively renewed for five or more years.
The School’s grant will allow it to create a Center for Experimental Infectious Disease Research (CEIDR). “This Center constitutes a strategic alliance between the School of Veterinary Medicine, the LSU College of Basic Sciences, and the Tulane National Primate Research Center,” said Dr. Konstantin G. Kousoulas, the administrator of the COBRE program at the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine. Currently, a total of five assistant professors have research projects in the grant, representing the Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, the Department of Biological Sciences, College of Basic Sciences, and the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Tulane National Primate Center (TNPRC). A number of other faculty and staff will participate in research cores in the School and TNPRC.
The COBRE program will be administered by the Division of Biotechnology and Molecular Medicine (BIOMMED; http://biommed.lsu.edu) of the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine. Dr. Konstantin G. Kousoulas, Director of BIOMMED and a professor of veterinary virology at the School of Veterinary Medicine, serves as the principal investigator of the Center. He will work closely with Dr. Andrew Lackner, Director of TNPRC in administering the Center “Participants in the COBRE program will have access to specialized Core Facilities at both TNPRC and BIOMMED,” said Dr. Kousoulas.The COBRE grant provides funding and research capabilities that will give assistant and associate professors the opportunity to establish research programs that will effectively compete for independent funding by NIH. Once a faculty member receives his or her own NIH funding for a particular research program, he or she will be rotated out of COBRE and replaced by other eligible faculty.
The five initial research projects are as follows:
“New measles vaccine strategy using VSV vectors,” Cristian Apetrei, Ph.D., TNPRC
“Early RSV exposure leads to adult airways disease,” Stephania A. Cormier, Ph.D., Department of Biological Sciences, LSU College of Basic Sciences
“Host response in HIV-1 and microsporidia co-infection,” Hollie Hale-Donze, Ph.D., Department of Biological Sciences, LSU College of Basic Sciences
“Monocyte infection in SIV neuropathogenesis,” Marlene Orandle, DVM, Ph.D., Department of Pathobiological Sciences, LSU School of Veterinary Medicine
“Contribution of TNF and MCP-1 to retrovirus-induced neurological disease,” Karin E. Peterson, Ph.D., Department of Pathobiological Sciences, LSU School of Veterinary Medicine.
An external advisory committee will visit LSU and TNPRC twice a year to review all aspects of the COBRE program. The committee members are Edward A. Hoover, DVM, Ph.D., a University Distinguished Professor of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at Colorado State University; Ronald C. Montelaro, Ph.D., professor of virology in the Department of Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry in the University of Pittsburgh College of Medicine; Barry Rouse, DVM, Ph.D., an international authority on viral immunology and the Lindsay Young Distinguished Professor of Microbiology in the Department of Microbiology in the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Tennessee; David G. Russell, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology in the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University; and Tilahun Yilma, DVM, Ph.D., an international expert on molecular virology and viral vaccines and professor of virology in the department of Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology in the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of California at Davis. Dr. Yilma was recently elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
“What makes this grant so important is that it brings national recognition to LSU and allows us to expand our research program in infectious disease as it relates to human health and comparative medicine,” said Dr. Thomas Klei, associate dean for research and advanced studies at the School of Veterinary Medicine. “This is the largest grant the School has ever gotten, and it’s the only grant like this currently at LSU,” said Dr. Klei. “The ultimate goal is to have a center for comparative medicine, and this grant is the first step towards that goal,” said Dr. Kousoulas.
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