Institutional Development Award IDeA Program Overview

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Institutional Development Award (IDeA) Program
Overview INBRE Central Regional Meeting May 5-6,
2005

W. Fred Taylor, Ph.D. IDeA Program Director
Division of Research Infrastructure National
Center for Research Resources
National Institutes of
Health Department of Health and
Human Services
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• IDeA Program established in 1993.
• Authorized in NIH Revitalization Act of 1993
• Congressional intent to enhance geographical
  distribution of research funds and increase
  research capacity.
• Comparable to NSF Experimental Program to
  Stimulate Competitiveness in Research (EPSCoR),
  established in 1980.
• EPSCoR-like programs across 8 Federal Agencies
  (NIH, NSF, USDA, NASA, DOE, DOC, DOD, EPA.

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• Two ELIGIBILITY criteria
• All states with a success rate of less than 20
  percent for obtaining NIH grant awards of between
  1999 2003.
• Also includes those states with higher success
  rates, but less than 100 million average NIH
  funding over those five years.
• 23 states and Puerto Rico are eligible for the
  IDeA Program
• Alaska Kentucky Nevada Rhode Island
• Arkansas Louisiana New Hampshire South Carolina
• Delaware Maine New Mexico South Dakota
• Hawaii Mississippi North Dakota Vermont
• Idaho Montana Oklahoma West Virginia
• Kansas Nebraska Puerto Rico Wyoming

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• Perceived needs to increase research capacity
• Core Laboratories
• Senior and Junior Faculty development
• Infrastructure (equipment)
• Facilities alteration and renovation/development
  
• Post-doctoral, student and staff development
• Faculty recruitment
• Bioinformatics training for students and
  faculty
• State of the Art Instrumentation
• Release time for teaching and clinical faculty
• Undergraduate, graduate, post-doctoral
  recruitment
• Training opportunities in grant management

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• Meeting the needs to increase competitiveness for
  NIH extramural support
• COBRE
• BRIN/INBRE
• Supplements for Improving Research and Animal
  Facilities/Core Instrumentation
• AFI/SIG
• Technology workshops
• Strategic Planning Meetings
• IDeANET (Western BRIN Infonet)
• Collaboration with NIH ICs (cofunding)
• Formal evaluation

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• CURRENT IDeA PROGRAMATIC MECHANISMS
• Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence
  (COBRE), began FY 2000, currently 73 centers.
  First Competing continuation applications, FY
  2005
• Biomedical Research Infrastructure Networks
  (BRIN), began FY 2001 / recompeted FY 2004 as
  IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence
  (INBRE), currently 18 INBRE and 6 BRIN networks
• IDeANET (Lariat, consortium of 6 northwestern
  IDeA states), FY 2003
• Co-funding began in FY 1998-2000, in FY 2004
  co-funded 30 R01 awards in 17 Institutes and
  Centers

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• COBRE New Applications
• Purpose
• To build a multidisciplinary research center at
  doctoral institutions or research institutes.
• Center Characteristics
• Development of a thematic scientific focus.
• Led by an established investigator, funded by
  NIH, NSF or other comparable Federal or private
  sector source.
• Comprised of 3 to 5 research projects each
  supervised by a junior investigator.
• Must describe a clear plan for mentoring, career
  development, graduation and replacement of junior
  investigators.
• Must describe long-term plans for developing and
  sustaining the center, research program,
  investigators, collaborations and physical
  infrastructure.

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• COBRE Competing Continuation Applications
• Purpose
• To obtain continuation funding to build an
  independent multidisciplinary research center.
• Center Characteristics
• Comprised of 3 to 5 research projects each
  supervised by a qualified investigator.

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• BRIN Goals (2001)
• Establish networks of undergraduate institutions
  to develop pipeline of next generation
  researchers
• Mentor junior faculty
• Support professional technical staff
• start-up funding for new hires
• Renovate laboratories
• Provide equipment

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• INBRE
• In 2004, Biomedical Research Infrastructure
  Networks (BRIN) was recompeted (competing
  continuations) as IDeA Networks of Biomedical
  Research Excellence (INBRE).
• The goals and objectives of the program remain
  essentially unchanged with emphasis placed on the
  development and maintenance of an inclusive
  statewide multi-disciplinary research network .

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• INBRE Goals (2004)
• To develop a statewide multi-disciplinary
  research network of doctoral degree granting and
  undergraduate institutions.
• To build and increase the research capacity by
  supporting faculty, fellows and students at
  participating institutions.
• To provide undergraduate faculty and students
  research support, serve as pipeline to health
  research careers.
• To provide outreach to students at undergraduate
  institutions, community colleges and tribal
  colleges.
• To enhance statewide science and technology
  knowledge base.

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• IDeANET
• IDeANET test-bed is a consortium of six IDeA
  states in the Northwest including Montana, Idaho,
  Nevada, Alaska, Hawaii and Wyoming (Lariat).
• Goal to provide increased connectivity for
  high-bandwidth science applications in these six
  western IDeA states.
• Facilitate collaborations among institutions.

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• IDeANET will provide funding specifically to
  enhance IT infrastructure.
• Highlight support for
• staff in bioinformatics and data management
  cores.
• computer hardware and software.
• Internet2 broad-bandwidth access for biomedical
  applications.

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• Multiple Levels of Benefit
• Lariat will relieve strategic bottlenecks in
  connectivity entering states.
• One major university campus per state to be
  directly linked.
• Many sites throughout states will experience
  improved Internet performance.
• Can leverage benefits to other university
  departments and other institutions.

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• IDeANET will ultimately provide support for a
  national IDeA network such as Lariat, to include
  all participants in the IDeA Program, and also
  participants in the Research Centers in Minority
  Institutions (RCMI) Program, and connect with
  other Networks supported by NCRR such as
  Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN).

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• CO-FUNDING
• The IDeA Program is Co-funding 30 R01 awards in
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• NIH Institutes and Centers in FY 2004-2005

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