This document discusses the Maine IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) program. It provides an overview of the statewide multi-institutional research network that aims to build research capacity, provide training and resources, and enhance the science and technology workforce in Maine. Key accomplishments of the program include training over 1,700 students, creating or sustaining 175 jobs, increasing research grant funding awarded to faculty, and expanding collaborations within Maine and with other IDeA states. The program has been successful in supporting students and early career researchers through research experiences and career development.

1. Maine IDeA
Patricia H. Hand, Ph.D.
PI, Maine INBRE
Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory

2. IDeA Institutional Development Award
IDeA Networks of Biomedical
Research Excellence (INBRE)
Patricia Hand, PhD, Maine INBRE
Joan Hunt, PhD, Kansas INBRE
IDeA States
Centers of Biomedical Research
Excellence (COBRE)
J. Donald Capra, MD, Oklahoma COBRE
Richard J. Bridges, PhD, Montana COBRE
Charles G. Irvin, PhD, Vermont COBRE

3. INBRE
IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence
• A statewide multi-disciplinary research network of doctoral degree-
granting, research and undergraduate institutions
• Build and increase research capacity by supporting faculty, fellows
and students at participating institutions
• Provide bioinformatics tools, training, and expertise
• Provide undergraduate faculty and students research support, serve as
“pipeline” to health research careers
• Provide outreach to students at undergraduate institutions,
community colleges and tribal colleges
• Enhance statewide science and technology knowledge base

4. ME-INBRE: Comparative Functional Genomics
Research Institutions
MDI Biological Laboratory (Lead)
The Jackson Laboratory
The University of Maine
Undergraduate Institutions
Bates College
Bowdoin College
Colby College
College of the Atlantic
Southern Maine Community College
University of Maine - Honors College
University of Maine at Farmington
University of Maine at Fort Kent
University of Maine at Machias
University of Maine at Presque Isle
Examples of Maine INBRE Programs

5. Charting the Course -
A Partnership for Decision Making
• INBRE Planning Grant – In state competition (AAAS), NIH
Study Section
• NIH/IDeA leadership, guidelines and review
• Listen & learn – institutions, faculty, students
• INBRE Steering Committee
• INBRE External Advisory Committee
• Maine Innovation Economy Advisory Board
• State EPSCoR Committee – quarterly meetings
• PI/NIH

6. How Do We Measure Success?
• Competitive renewals in 2004 & 2009
• Growth of Network from 6 institutions to 13
• Tracking Progress:
•Research, publications, presentations, grants,
curriculum development, science majors, career
advancement, recruitment, research infrastructure,
changing the research culture, impact on state’s
workforce & economy
• State, Regional and National Collaborations

7. Highlights of Progress/Accomplishments
• 1700 students trained
• 175 jobs created or sustained
• During last 5 year funding cycle,
• 423 research grants to NIH, 120 (28%) awarded
• 408 for 1st 3 years of current cycle, 141 (35%) awarded
• 237 publications, 98 with undergraduate authors
• 383 research presentations
• 4 0f 12 (33%) of previously funded INBRE faculty
graduated with independent research grants

8. INBRE Student Tracking
89% pursuing higher education or careers in health related fields

9. The People We Serve
Kristin Beale
• Norridgewock, Maine
• University of Maine at Farmington
• INBRE short course, discovered biomedical research as a career
• Research Assistant at MDI Biological Laboratory
• Research: fertilization using Arbidopsis as model - highlighted in
NYT, Huffington Post, published in Current Biology
• PhD, Genetics, Brown University summer 2013

10. Building Connections - Highlights
Maine
• UMaine Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
• Incubated the Maine Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience
• Maine Biological and Medical Sciences Symposium
• Stem Cell Symposium with Maine COBREs
• Maine EPSCoR
EPSCoR/IDeA States
• UVM/Dartmouth/UNE Med School Course at Maine INBRE
• Regional Bioinformatics COBRE (NH), NH INBRE
• Visiting Scientist Fellowships
• Undergraduate Student Fellowships – Kansas
• North East Cyberinfrastructure Consortium

11. North East Cyberinfrastructure Consortium
Existing Routes
NTIA BTOP Routes
NIH and NSF Routes

12. INBRE- and Cyberinfrastructure-Enabled
Science Education
Maine INBRE Joined
Regional Collaboration
Howard Hughes Medical
Bioinformatics Workforce
Development and Training Institute’s Science
Education Alliance