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Description
The objective of the Center of Biomedical Research Excellence in the Molecular Basis of Human
Disease (COBREMBHD) is to enhance the success of promising junior investigators at the University of
Kentucky for competing for NIH grant support through the development of a research center focusing on
understanding human disease at the molecular level. We will achieve this objective by:
(1) assembling a group of established extramurally-funded scientists who will serve as mentors for junior
faculty serving as principal investigators on research projects. (2) providing these junior faculty with state-ofthe-
art training in concepts and techniques relevant to studying human disease with an emphasis on the
application of structural biology to these projects, (3) establishing mentoring plans including milestones as
the basis of the development program, (4) developing and supporting shared core facilities, (5) providing
pilot grants for projects that will complement those of the junior faculty, (6) providing a seminar program
stressing the latest advances in studying human diseases at the molecular level and techniques of structural
biology and their application to biomedical research, (6) holding an annual retreat to evaluate and critique
the progress of the junior faculty and (7) hiring promising new faculty to develop a critical mass of productive
investigators in studying molecular aspects of human disease.
Five tenure track Assistant Professors will serve as Pis on research projects that overlap in concepts
and methodology. The junior faculty participating in the COBRE came from excellent potdoctoral
experiences and are likely to benefit from the training program. Their projects apply one or more of the
techniques of structural biology to studies related to human disease and have a high likelihood of developing
into successful R01 type research grants.
Status | Finished |
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Effective start/end date | 9/1/04 → 7/31/07 |
Funding
- National Center for Research Resources
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Projects
- 1 Finished
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Center of Biomedical Research Excellence in the Molecular Basis of Human Disease
Hersh, L., Andres, D., Chi, Y., D'Orazio, S., Dickson, R., Kyprianou, N., McCann, R., Murphy, M., Ozcan, S., Plattner, R., Rodgers, D., Ryou, C., Shimojo, M., Vanaman, T., Whiteheart, S. & Zhu, H.
National Center for Research Resources
9/1/04 → 7/31/07
Project: Research project