Background

The Delaware IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) is a five-year program established in July 2004 with funding provided by the National Center for Research Resources at the National Institutes of Health (NIH-NCRR). The Delaware INBRE kickoff meeting took place August 19, 2004 at DBI.

The Delaware INBRE builds on the highly successful Delaware BRIN program that was established in 2001 under a grant by NIH-NCRR. The Delaware BRIN established a statewide network linking Delaware institutions of higher education and Delaware’s largest hospital system to establish a statewide infrastructure in support of a growing effort to build a biomedical research capacity in Delaware.

The purpose of the Delaware INBRE is to deliver, over the five-year term of the grant, a statewide pipeline of capable and competitive medical research personnel who can compete for and win NIH-funded research grants. The primary goals of the Delaware INBRE are to

• Support junior and early career faculty in mentored biomedical research;
• Involve undergraduate institutions and their students in the research process;
• Strengthen the existing biomedical research infrastructure;
• Improve biomedical workforce development.
• The Delaware INBRE will be implemented through six core activities:
  • Administration
  • Research
  • Centralized Research Instrumentation
  • Bioinformatics
  • Undergraduate Research Experience
  • Outreach

Under the Research Core, the Delaware INBRE program currently supports 19 multidisciplinary research projects. The research projects are organized within seven research themes:

• Cancer
• Cardiovascular
• Biomedical Imaging
• Animal Modeling
• Infectious Diseases
• Biochemistry
• Nursing Research