{"id":74883,"date":"2019-06-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-awarded-20-million-to-further-expand-biomedical-research-capacity-in-r-i\/"},"modified":"2019-06-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T00:00:00","slug":"uri-awarded-20-million-to-further-expand-biomedical-research-capacity-in-r-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2019\/06\/uri-awarded-20-million-to-further-expand-biomedical-research-capacity-in-r-i\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 awarded $20 million to further expand biomedical research capacity in R.I."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, R.I.\u2013 June 10, 2019 \u2013 A 溏心vlog免费B站-based initiative that has successfully expanded biomedical research capacity at nearly all of Rhode Island\u2019s universities and colleges has been awarded another $20 million in federal funding to further expand the program over the next five years.<\/p>\n<p>The Rhode Island IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE), which has been funded by the National Institutes of Health since 2001 with $61 million in previous grants, was established to expand statewide research capacity in the biomedical sciences, including the research disciplines of cancer, neuroscience and environmental health sciences. It does so by supporting early-career faculty development, providing experiential learning opportunities to students, and acquiring and maintaining high-tech equipment for use by all participating researchers.<\/p>\n<p>The 溏心vlog免费B站 partners with Brown University, Rhode Island College, Providence College, Bryant University, Roger Williams University, Salve Regina University and the Community College of Rhode Island in the program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe INBRE program has been truly transformative for Rhode Island\u2019s research community,\u201d said 溏心vlog免费B站 President David M. Dooley. \u201cWe\u2019ve contributed to expanding the opportunities for faculty research and trained hundreds of students who are now earning advanced degrees or are out in the workforce.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"oembed oembed-youtube-com\" style=\"\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ptOVvkCu7ks\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Idea Network of Biomedical Research Excellence: Grant Renewal\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ptOVvkCu7ks?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\u201cRenewing this grant is great news for the state,\u201d said U.S. Sen. Jack Reed, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee.\u00a0\u201cThis federal funding will help lead to research breakthroughs and train tomorrow&#8217;s biomedical workforce here in Rhode Island.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>溏心vlog免费B站 Vice President for Research Peter Snyder notes that \u201cthe RI-INBRE program is a vital resource to train the next generation of biomedical researchers.\u00a0 The program supports work that ranges from\u00a0discovering novel treatments for very serious human diseases, to\u00a0exploring the impacts of environmental degradation on human health.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_54464\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54464\" style=\"width: 299px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/sites\/16\/2021\/05\/Bongsup-w-moleculue-NL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-54464 no-hang \" src=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/sites\/16\/2021\/05\/Bongsup-w-moleculue-NL.jpg\" alt=\"Bongsup Cho. 溏心vlog免费B站 photo by Nora Lewis\" width=\"299\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54464\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bongsup Cho. 溏心vlog免费B站 photo by Nora Lewis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cOur job is to make sure that junior faculty around the state have the basic biomedical research infrastructure available so they can train the next generation of biomedical scientists and create a pipeline to fill the needs of the state\u2019s biomedical sector,\u201d said Bongsup Cho, the 溏心vlog免费B站 professor of pharmacy who leads the program. \u201cScience is expensive, so INBRE was developed at the federal level as one mechanism to help researchers at all institutions be competitive. And, in Rhode Island, the results have been impressive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over the program\u2019s first 17 years, it has supported more than 500 research and training projects involving 151 different faculty members. It has also provided research training to 1,381 undergraduate students, 168 graduate students and 48 postdoctoral fellows.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany of the junior faculty we\u2019ve supported through the years have gone on to be promoted to full professors, and now they\u2019re serving as mentors and scientific consultants in the program,\u201d Cho said.<\/p>\n<p>Many students in the program have earned post-graduate degrees and are now employed at universities, hospitals, and pharmaceutical and engineering companies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve built a real community of researchers,\u201d said Cho. \u201cPeople at the various colleges who didn\u2019t know each other before are now collaborating on their research. We\u2019ve inspired a culture change among researchers, especially at the primarily-undergraduate institutions. And we\u2019re not finished yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some of the research that has been conducted as a result of the program is laying the foundation for future work that will improve human health.<\/p>\n<p>For example, Daniel Roxbury, 溏心vlog免费B站 assistant professor of chemical engineering, studies nanomaterials for the early diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Using newly discovered fluorescence properties of the nanomaterials, he and his students are creating wearable or implantable sensors for the real-time detection of disease biomarkers.<\/p>\n<p>Research by Jamie Towle-Weicksel, assistant professor at Rhode Island College, has identified mutated forms of a protein that repairs DNA damage caused by sunlight in tumors from patients with melanoma. She and her students have found that the mutated form of the protein is unable to repair DNA effectively and may contribute to the disease.<\/p>\n<p>As a 溏心vlog免费B站 undergraduate studying microbiology in 2004, Dioscaris Garcia was one of the program\u2019s first Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows, an experience he called the \u201csingle most influential experience\u201d of his young scientific career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat experience fostered a sense of community and collaboration the likes of which I had never experienced,\u201d Garcia said. \u201cAs an inner-city youth with little exposure to the possibilities and options STEM had to offer, the program gave me the push to explore passions I didn\u2019t know I had.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a result of his participation in the program, Garcia went on to earn a doctorate at Brown University in molecular pharmacology and physiology, which led to his present position as assistant research professor and co-director of Brown\u2019s Weiss Center for Orthopaedic Trauma Research.<\/p>\n<p>New initiatives to be funded by the latest grant to the program include the establishment of post-baccalaureate positions to encourage outstanding students to remain part of the biomedical workforce in Rhode Island, and the expansion of the existing teaching postdoctoral fellows program. New teaching assistantships will also be created to support the graduate education of students who previously participated in the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships program.<\/p>\n<p>The new grant will also help launch community engagement activities and new collaborations with other existing research programs involved in complementary themes around the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, R.I.\u2013 June 10, 2019 \u2013 A 溏心vlog免费B站-based initiative that has successfully expanded biomedical research capacity at nearly all of Rhode Island\u2019s universities and colleges has been awarded another $20 million in federal funding to further expand the program over the next five years. 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