COBRE Center for Evolutionary and Theoretical Immunology

COBRE 进化和理论免疫学中心

• 批准号: 9034588
• 负责人: ERIC SAMUEL LOKER
• 金额: $ 113.25万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-06-01 至 2019-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9034588
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With funding from the NIH IDeA COBRE program, the Center for Evolutionary and Theoretical Immunology (CETI) was launched in 2003. CETI's thematic focus area, in evolutionary-comparative and theoretical immunology, stems from a unique confluence of faculty with shared interests in the Departments of Biology and Computer Science at UNM and at the Los Alamos National Laboratories. With COBRE support, CETI has hired six tenure-track faculty and has leveraged 16,000 SF of new building space in the Biology building to accommodate our program. CETI investigators have now published 576 scientific papers and successfully competed for $39.9 million in research funds. In addition, one of CETI's key goals is to improve and maintain scientific infrastructure to enable our scientists to be even more competitive in securing extramural support. Towards that end, along with our supportive Administrative Core, we have established three extensively-used scientific Cores: a Molecular Biology Core and a Controlled Environments Core, both established in Phase I of our funding, and a Cell Biology Core established in Phase II. Our goals for Phase III are to further improve and expand our three scientific Cores through purchase of additional equipment and hiring of technical support. We also propose to further increase our user base by continuing our popular Pilot Project and Waiver programs. To go along with these programs, we offer all participants extensive mentoring to increase their likelihood of securing their own extramural funding and increasing their prospects for long term success in academia. Another important goal of Phase III is to transition each of our Cores to a cost neutral status, thus reducing our dependence on COBRE support. Consequently, we will phase in business models that will help us achieve this goal by the end of Phase III. Finally, to aid in transition from COBRE support, we have secured a pledge of $887,500 in support from UNM's administration to be applied post-Phase III (in years 16 through 20 of CETI's existence) to help us sustain CETI's independence. By building a critical mass of investigators able to compete for both individual and multi-PI grants, we are confident that CETI will achieve the goals of the IDeA program in promoting increased research competitiveness and scientific infrastructure development in the state of New Mexico.

通过NIH Idea Cobre计划的资助，进化和理论免疫学中心 （CETI）于2003年启动。 免疫学，源于教师与生物学部门共同利益的独特融合 以及UNM和Los Alamos国家实验室的计算机科学。在CETI的鞋垫支撑下 已经雇用了六个终身教师，并在生物学大楼中利用了16,000平方英尺的新建筑空间 适应我们的计划。 CETI调查人员现在发表了576篇科学论文和 成功竞争了3990万美元的研究基金。此外，CETI的主要目标之一是改善 并维护科学基础设施，以使我们的科学家在确保保护方面更具竞争力 壁外支撑。为此，我们与我们的支持行政核心一起建立了 三个广泛使用的科学核心：分子生物学核心和受控环境核心，两者都 在我们的资金的第一阶段建立，以及在第二阶段建立的细胞生物学核心。我们的阶段目标 III将通过购买其他设备和 雇用技术支持。我们还建议通过继续流行来进一步增加我们的用户群 试点项目和豁免计划。为了进行这些计划，我们为所有参与者提供了广泛的信息 指导以增加他们确保自己的壁外资金并增加前景的可能性 在学术界长期取得成功。第三阶段的另一个重要目标是将我们的每个核心转变为 成本中立状态，从而降低了我们对山毛支撑的依赖。因此，我们将在 在III阶段结束时，将有助于我们实现这一目标的业务模型。最后，帮助从 COBRE支持，我们已获得UNM政府的$ 887,500的誓言 第三阶段后（在CETI存在的第16至20年中），以帮助我们维持CETI的独立性。经过 建立大量的调查人员能够竞争个人和多PI赠款，我们是 确信CETI将实现IDEA计划的目标，以促进更多的研究 新墨西哥州的竞争力和科学基础设施发展。