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LSU and seven other Louisiana institutions have received a prestigious IDEA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence or INBRE, grant from the National Institutes of Health. The grant totals $16.9 million over a five-year period.
LSU is the lead university on the INBRE grant and the other institutions involved are Southern University, LSU-Shreveport, Louisiana Tech University, and the LSU Health Sciences Center and the University of Louisiana at Monroe. The LSU Health Sciences Center in Shreveport and Tulane University are part of a special one-year supplement to the grant.
Researchers from Tulane and the LSU Health Sciences Center are participating in the INBRE grant research, despite damage to facilities from Hurricane Katrina. Indeed, several are currently working out of laboratory facilities at LSU and other INBRE partner institutions.
"At a time when our state is facing unprecedented challenges, the need to combine our intellectual and technological strengths has never been greater. Collaboration is the hallmark of this extraordinary grant project t and it is something that we at the LSU System encourage and wholeheartedly endorse," said LSU System President William Jenkins. "Building a strong community of researchers who support and encourage one another is key to innovation and crucial to moving Louisiana forward toward a brighter future."
The main INBRE grant award is for $16,638,212. The supplement to the grant adds another $331,829, bringing the total funding to $16,970,041.
"Good news like this could not have come at a better time. This is a tremendous achievement for all of the universities involved and for the entire state," said LSU Chancellor Sean O'Keefe. "This important grant will help insure that LSU and Louisiana are on the cutting edge of biomedical research and innovation."
Supported by the NIH's National Center for Research Resources' Division of Research Infrastructure, INBRE grants are intended to "enhance the caliber of scientific faculty at research institutions and undergraduate schools, thereby attracting more promising students."
"The NIH INBRE grant will greatly advance the level of research these Louisiana institutions are conducting in the biomedical sciences," said Harold Silverman, interim vice chancellor for research and graduate studies at LSU. "More faculty and student researchers will be involved, better collaboration will take place and the best technology will be harnessed like never before."
Silverman explained that LSU and the LSU Health Sciences Center will be the primary research partners serving to provide infrastructure and mentoring expertise for faculty researchers at the other institutions. The idea, he said, is to establish computation and communication networks and "people" networks in order to enhance biomedical research in the state. Each area leader at LSU will team with or serve as a mentor to faculty members at the other institutions, as they work together on specific research projects. Ultimately, the goal is to involve more researchers and students and to encourage the researchers to seek additional grants from other sources to support their work.
According to Silverman, the INBRE grant is broken down into four core areas: administrative, biocomputing, cell and molecular biology and outreach. As the principal investigator for the grant, Silverman will serve as the leader of the administrative area. Edward Seidel, director of LSU's Center for Computation and Technology, will lead the biocomputing area, and Gus Kousoulas, professor of virology and biotechnology, in the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine, and Director of the Division BioMMED
(Biotechnology and Molecular Medicine) (http:BIOMMED.LSU.EDU) will lead the cell/molecular biology group. LSU Biological Sciences Associate Professor Bill Wischusen will serve as leader of the outreach area.
The purpose of the INBRE grant is to support the recipient institutions in establishing "a multi-disciplinary research network with a scientific focus" that will "build and strengthen the lead and partner institutions' biomedical research expertise and infrastructure," as well as "increase the research base and capacity by providing research support to faculty, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students at the participating institutions."
In addition, the grant provides research opportunities for undergraduate students and serves as a "pipeline" for students to continue in health research careers. It also aims to provide outreach activities to students at undergraduate and other institutions participating in the states' network and "enhances the science and technology knowledge of the state's workforce."
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