Health and Biomedical Sciences Breakout Session

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Health and Biomedical Sciences Breakout Session

• Moderator
• Susan E. Maier, Ph.D.
• Office of Proposal Development
• Texas AM University
• The Texas AM University System Health Science
  Center

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Dr. Fuller Bazer

• Regents Fellow, Distinguished Professor, O.D.
  Butler Chair in Animal Science
• Associate Vice President for Research
• Texas AM University
• Contact 979-458-2876 (ph), 979-845-1855 (fax)
• Email fbazer_at_cvm.tamu.edu

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Dr. Evelyn Tiffany-Castiglioni

• Professor and Department Head
• Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences
• Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education
• College of Veterinary Medicine
• Texas AM University System
• Contact 979-845-2828 (ph), 979-847-8981 (fax)
• Email ecastiglioni_at_cvm.tamu.edu

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Dr. Mary Jane Hamilton

• Professor
• Dean, College of Nursing and Health Sciences
• Texas AM University Corpus Christi
• Contact 361-825-2649 (ph), 361-825-2484 (fax)
• Email hamilton_at_falcon.tamucc.edu
• Member of University of CA, San Francisco
  International HIV/AIDs Nursing Research Network
  partner WHO Collaborating Centers
• Multi site intervention study in 30 countries.

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Dr. Philip Mirkes

• Director, Professor
• Center for Environmental and Rural Health
• Chester Reed Professor of Veterinary Medicine
• Department of Physiology and Pharmacology
• Texas AM University
• Contact 979-862-4242 (ph), 979-862-8942 (fax)
• Email pmirkes_at_cvm.tamu.edu

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Dr. Alan Parrish

• Associate Professor
• Systems Biology Translational Medicine
• College of Medicine
• The Texas AM University System Health Science
  Center
• Contact 979-458-1538 (ph), 979-845-0699 (fax)
• Email parrish_at_medicine.tamhsc.edu
• Research Interests intercellular adhesion, renal
  failure

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Dr. Elda E. Sanchez

• Assistant Director
• Natural Toxins Research Center
• Texas AM University Kingsville
• Contact 361-593-3746 (ph), 361-593-3798 (fax)
• Email elda.sanchez_at_tamuk.edu

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Objectives of Breakout Session

• To stimulate research partnerships among system
  school researchers with common research areas
• Facilitate and enhance the research performed by
  junior faculty by exposing them to the successful
  strategies for funding that are employed by
  established researchers
• Identify sustainable research areas and resources
  among participants and panelists

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What Would Make My Research Better?

• What do I need to perform my research?
• What do I need to make it better?
• Asking more complex or comprehensive questions?
• Using more sophisticated techniques?
• Incorporating novel techniques/assays/assessment
  tools that will help advance my field?
• Altering the focus of my research?
• Establishing relationships with persons of
  expertise?

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Resources

• Equipment
• Services
• Expertise

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NIH Roadmap Initiatives

• New Pathways to Discovery
• New techniques
• Novel approaches
• Building Research Teams of the Future
• Partnerships and Collaborations
• Re-Engineering the Clinical Research Enterprise
• Involving clinician-scientists in the research
  program

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NIH Research Priorities for FY2006

• Biodefense
• HIV/AIDs
• NIH Roadmap
• NIH Neuroscience Blueprint

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Intersections of Research
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Sustainability

• What can the System do to promote and sustain the
  research activities of junior faculty at the
  various system schools?