UNE receives $5 million to support chronic pain research, industry collaboration
的 Center of Biomedical 研究 Excellence (COBRE) for the Study of Pain and Sensory Function at the University of New England has received more than $5 million to continue its groundbreaking research in the studies of pain and novel therapeutics while driving workforce and economic development in the region.
五年期债券，5美元.17 million grant from the National Institutes of 健康 (NIH) supports the third and final phase of the COBRE’s establishment, which will cement the center as a place for research and an industry resource across Maine and New England. 这笔最新的拨款使总数达到 federal support for the center to over $25 million.
正规澳门赌场网络cobre资助的研究 significantly contributes to the scientific understanding of the neurobiology of chronic pain, facilitating the discovery and development of novel therapies, including new drugs and other non-pharmaceutical treatment options.
的 center’s primary focus is to provide support to junior scientists as they establish independent research programs, the center has also in recent years formed several external partnerships in industry and health care that will bolster development in those sectors for years to come. Such partnerships include Corning and the Maine Medical Center 研究 Institute (MMCRI).
学生 in several of UNE’s academic programs conduct research in the COBRE’s two core research facilities — the 组织学和影像学核心; which houses high-tech microscopes and imaging analysis software, the 行为的核心, which facilitates early drug discovery — which provide expertise, 设备, instrumentation for cutting-edge research at the university and across the state.
自成立以来，COBRE已:
- Provided over 600 one-on-one research core training sessions for undergraduate students
- 给n over 90 undergraduates experience in a neuroscience research lab
- Produced more than 85 research publications listing UNE students as authors on peer-reviewed publications
- Supported 191 peer-reviewed research publications
“It is a major goal of the COBRE program to be a part of workforce training for Maine and also to be a valuable research tool that is not just internal to UNE,Ian Meng说。, Ph.D.他是正规澳门赌场网络COBRE主任. “We want people outside UNE to see the COBRE as something that can help boost not just research at UNE but also boost the economy and biomedical science community in Maine.”
的图 成立于2012年 with funding from the National Institute of General Medical 科学s (NIGMS). 第一个, five-year phase of the grant increased UNE’s capacity for research in the biomedical sciences by expanding research space at the University, 招聘新的神经科学教师, 建立两个研究核心. In 2017, the second five-year phase of the COBRE program built a critical mass of investigators conducting research in pain and neurobiology.
在过去的十年里, several COBRE-funded junior faculty have gone on to receive their own grants to further support pain research. 就在最近，本杰明·哈里森，B.Sc., Ph.D., assistant professor of biochemistry and nutrition, received $1.8 million from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, a division of the NIH, to develop non-opioid pain treatments through reducing the activity of pain-sensing neurons called “nociceptors.”
Harrison said that, without support from 一个图的, his research would not have come to fruition.
“的图 allowed me to come work at UNE, 建立一个实验室, 雇佣一个团队, get all the materials and instrumentation needed to conduct my experiments, 并申请独立资助. 如果不是COBRE的话, 我根本就不会去正规澳门赌场网络, there’s no way I would have had the support that I have.”