NIH grants $33 M in institutional development awards t...(l To enhance the science and technology...)

Each award includes a principal investigator with established credentials relevant to the centers research theme; three to five individual research projects that share that theme and are supervised by a single junior investigator; and a development and mentoring plan that will prepare these investigators to secure competitive federal research funding.

For states to compete on a national level for federal research dollars, we need to lay the foundation at the undergraduate level as well as partner with the local community to effect change, said NCRR Director Barbara M. Alving, M.D. By funding intellectual development and enhancing research infrastructure in these IDeA states, we are producing a pipeline of homegrown researchers who will become future leaders in competing for these federal dollars.

New IDeA Awards:

For full descriptions of the following IDeA centers, visit www.ncrr.nih.gov/news/2007_IDeA_Awards.asp.

University of Kansas Medical Center (Kansas City, Kan.)
$11 million
Molecular Regulation of Cell Development and Differentiation
Principal Investigator: Dale R. Abrahamson, Ph.D.

University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (Oklahoma City, Okla.)
$11 million
Mentoring Diabetes Research in Oklahoma
Principal Investigator: Jian-Xing Ma, M.D., Ph.D.

Rhode Island Hospital (Providence, R.I.)
$11 million
Center of Biomedical Research Excellence for Skeletal Health and Repair
Principal Investigator: Qian Chen, Ph.D.

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