Administrative Supplemental Awards RI-INBRE’s recent NIH Administrative Supplement awards RI-INBRE/COBRE Collaboration Supplemental Award The “Nanoparticle-mediated drug delivery for inflammatory arthritis” project is led by Dr. Jamie Towle-Weicksel, a Rhode Island College RI-INBRE investigator, in collaboration with Dr. Eui Young So, a Rhode Island Hospital COBRE investigator. The one-year project was awarded in August 2021 and […]
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Susan Meschwitz Admin Supp
RI-INBRE-COBRE Collaborative Research Dr. Susan Meschwitz received the first RI-INBRE/COBRE Collaboration Supplemental Award in 2019 with Dr. Helen (Beth) Fuchs of Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital. In 2021, Dr. Meschwitz also received the RI-INBRE Women’s Health Supplemental Award, in collaboration with URI investigators Dr. Jodi Camberg and Dr. David Rowley. Dr. Susan Meschwitz, Associate […]
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SURF Program Update – Summer 2021 RI-INBRE hosted the 2021 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Program from May 24th through July 30th. Ninety-one undergraduate students participated in summer research experiences at our network institutions across the state including, Providence College, Rhode Island College, Roger Williams University, Salve Regina University, and the University of Rhode Island. […]
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Virtual North East Regional IDeA Conference (v-NERIC) New IDeAs, New Discoveries RI-INBRE hosted the 2021 virtual North East Regional Institutional Development Award (IDeA) Conference (vNERIC) on August 16-18, 2021, which attracted over 650 researchers from the National Institutes of Health IDeA programs throughout Delaware, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. The conference included keynote […]
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Welcome to Johnson and Wales University! RI-INBRE is pleased to announce that Johnson and Wales University (JWU) joined our network! We are proud to support the partnership to expand our newest institutional member’s biomedical research capacity. RI-INBRE’s team met with JWU’s leadership and finalized the new collaboration in November 2021. We are excited to report […]
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Kristen Baker, RI-INBRE Teaching Postdoctoral Fellow Kristen Baker, Ph.D. “very early on, fell in love” an organic chemistry class in high school and attended Gettysburg College, majoring in chemistry and minoring in mathematics. She completed research within the chemistry department and was a chemistry laboratory teaching assistant that “pushed her towards graduate school.” In the […]
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Dr. Jamie Towle-Weicksel’s Path to Funding Dr. Jamie Towle-Weicksel, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Rhode Island College (RIC), joined RIC in 2015 and received tenure and promotion to her current position in July 2019. Dr. Towle-Weicksel’s mentors encouraged her to apply to multiple grant opportunities, including RI-INBRE SURF Training and Early Career Development […]
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Applications for FY 2022 Funding In October 2021 RI-INBRE’s Developmental Research Project Program (DRPP) announced multiple award mechanisms in the areas of Cancer, Neuroscience, and Environmental Health Sciences. Letters of intent were requested for PUI Collaborative Research Awards, Early Career Development for PUI and URI/Brown, PUI SURF Training Awards, PUI Teaching Postdoctoral Fellowships, and Pilot […]
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Molecular Informatics Core (MIC) On July 1, 2021, the RI-INBRE Bioinformatics Core joined resources with the URI Genomics and Sequencing Center (GSC) to form the new RI-INBRE Molecular Informatics Core (MIC). The MIC is structured according to the new National Institutes of Health INBRE directive to maintain a Data Sciences Core for Biomedical Research. The […]
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Introducing the 2022 Spring Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) We are pleased to announce the first RI-INBRE Spring Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) program, a pilot award for 2022. The unique research experience is for University of Rhode Island students, underrepresented in the biomedical sciences and related fields. Sixteen SURE fellows are participating in a paid research […]
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