Center for the Biologic Basis of Oral/Systemic Diseases (CBBOSD)

Center for the Biologic Basis of Oral/Systemic Diseases The A/E Core has continued to provide support for the junior Pis to develop within the research infrastructure of the COBRE cePiter. The A/EC provides various tools for grant and manuscript preparation, as well as direct support for grants management within the context of the COBRE award. In addition to the routine meetings between the junior PI and senior mentors, the A/EC organizes bimonthly meetings of the entire COBRE faculty. At each of these meetings, general information is provided on the COBRE activities, specific funding solicitations are presented and discussed, and 1 of the junior Pis presents an update on their project. We anticipate that as we move into the 09 year, some of these meetings would also enlist some of the senior mentors to present interesting aspects of the research activities that our outside the scope of the COBRE project, but would be of interest to the junior Pis in the academic development. The COBRE continues to support a seminar series in collaboration with the UK College of Dentistry and the Kentucky Chapter of the American Association of Dental Research. These seminars have engaged researchers ranging from basic (Dr. Gil Diamond, UMDNJ; Dr, Richard Lamont, Univ. of Louisville) to clinical and translational research. We will continue this series over year 09 of the center.