NIGMS Office of Communications and Public Liaison301-496-7301
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) made 37 new and competing Institutional Development Awards (IDeA) in 18 states during Fiscal Year 2014. These grants are expected to total approximately $417.3 million over the next 5 years.
The IDeA program builds research capacities in states that historically have had low levels of NIH funding by supporting basic, clinical and translational research; faculty development; and infrastructure improvements.
The program's two main components are Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) and Institutional Development Award Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE). COBREs are thematic, multidisciplinary research centers that develop faculty and institutional research capabilities. INBREs enhance research capacity, strengthen the research capabilities of faculty and provide students with access to biomedical resources.
The grants made during the last fiscal year will support 25 COBREs and 12 INBREs. The institutions and principal investigators that received these awards in Fiscal Year 2014 are:
COBRE Phase I
Alfred I. du Pont Hospital for Children (Delaware) – Marie Stuart, P20GM109021
Boise State University (Idaho) – Julia Oxford, P20GM109095
Boys Town National Research Hospital (Nebraska) – Walt Jesteadt, P20GM109023
Medical University of South Carolina – Steven Kautz, P20GM109040
Montana State University-Bozeman – Allen Harmsen, P20GM104417
University of Delaware – Joseph Fox, P20GM104316
University of Nebraska-Lincoln – Janos Zempleni, P20GM104320
University of Nebraska-Omaha – Nicholas Stergiou, P20GM109090
University of South Carolina – Igor Roninson, P20GM109091
West Virginia University – James Simpkins, P20GM109098
COBRE Phase II
Clemson University (South Carolina) – Naren Vyavahare, P20GM103444
University of Hawaii at Manoa – William Ward, P20GM103457
COBRE Phase III
Louisiana State University – Konstantin Kousoulas, P30GM110760
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans – Daniel Kapusta, P30GM106392
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport – Dennis O'Callaghan, P30GM110703
Montana State University-Bozeman – Mark Quinn, P30GM110732
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation – Patrick Gaffney, P30GM110766
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences – Edgar Garcia-Rill, P30GM110702
University of Delaware – Thomas Beebe Jr., P30GM110758
University of Kansas, Lawrence – Robert Hanzlik, P30GM110761
University of Kentucky – Jeffrey Ebersole, P30GM110788
University of Kentucky – Louis Hersh, P30GM110787
University of Nebraska Medical Center – Shelley Smith, P30GM110768
University of Nevada, Reno – Kenton Sanders, P30GM110767
University of New Mexico – Eric Samuel Loker, P30GM110907
INBRE
Marshall University (West Virginia) – Gary Rankin, P20GM103434
Montana State University-Bozeman – Allen Harmsen, P20GM103474
Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory (Maine) – Patricia Hand, P20GM103423
University of Alaska Fairbanks – Cheryl Anne Frye, P20GM103395
University of Delaware – Steven Stanhope, P20GM103446
University of Idaho – Carolyn Hovde Bohach, P20GM103408
University of Kansas – Douglas Wright, P20GM103418
University of Louisville (Kentucky) – Nigel Cooper, P20GM103436
New Mexico State University – Jeffrey Arterburn, P20GM103451
University of North Dakota – Donald Sens, P20GM103442
University of Oklahoma – Darrin Akins, P20GM103447
University of Rhode Island – Zahir Shaikh, P20GM110490
For more information about the IDeA program, see http://www.nigms.nih.gov/Training/IDeA/Pages/default.aspx.
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