By Jon Lorsch I’m pleased to announce that Kenneth Gibbs has been selected as the new director of our Division of Training and Workforce Development (TWD). Kenny is an immunologist by training and is currently chief of the Cross-Disciplinary Pathways Program Branch in TWD. He also oversees the Maximizing Opportunities for Scientific and Academic Independent [...]
Three NIH grantees were honored with Nobel prizes in early October, two in medicine or physiology and one in chemistry. The 2024 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was awarded jointly to grantees Dr. Victor Ambros of the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, and Dr. Gary Ruvkun of Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General [...]
Kate Blankenship, a biology senior in the Dept. of Sciences and Mathematics, did a paid summer internship this past June and July in the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering at Mississippi State University. Kate did her internship in the Computational Mechanics and Materials Lab (CMML) of Dr. Matthew W. Priddy at MSU. She was part [...]
Tougaloo College is thrilled to announce that two of its distinguished students, Ms. Almia Valentine (2024 Mississippi INBRE Research Scholar) and Mr. Aeries Hoskins, have been named 2024 HBCU Scholars by the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Both students are among the six scholars selected from Mississippi, recognizing their [...]
STARKVILLE, Miss., July 23 – Two new projects to enhance research infrastructure and investment across Mississippi were announced at the third annual Mississippi IDeA/EPSCoR Conference 2024 (MIEC24). The conference, co-hosted by the Mississippi IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (Mississippi INBRE) and the Mississippi Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (Mississippi EPSCoR), took place at the [...]
The U.S. National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) have initiated a joint research training opportunity through the NSF Non-Academic Research Internships for Graduate Students (NSF INTERN) program. The NSF INTERN program provides graduate students with six-month experiential learning opportunities through research internships where they acquire core [...]
Continuing a long-standing partnership of over 15 years, the Mississippi IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (MS-INBRE) served as Major Sponsor for the 88th annual Mississippi Academy of Sciences (MAS) meeting, hosted on Thursday, February 29 - Friday, March 1, 2024, at the Thad Cochran Center on The University of Southern Mississippi's (USM) Hattiesburg campus. [...]
Four undergraduates supported by the Mississippi IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (MS-INBRE) placed in the research poster competition at the 2023 Southeast Regional IDeA Conference (SEIDeA23), held in South Carolina this September. Of those who placed, one student was even honored as the highest scoring undergraduate in the entire Southeast U.S. region. SEIDeA is [...]
Dr. Alex Flynt, far left, discusses the renewal of a more than $21 million NIH grant that supports the Mississippi IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (MS INBRE). Joining him for the announcement about the grant renewal were Dr. Jake Schaefer, director of the School of Biological, Environmental and Earth Sciences (BEES); Dr. Chris Winstead, [...]
The Mississippi IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (Mississippi INBRE) co-hosted the 2ndannual Mississippi IDeA/EPSCoR Conference 2023 (MIEC23) in conjunction with the Mississippi Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (Mississippi EPSCoR) on Thursday, July 27, 2023, at the Thad Cochran Center on The University of Southern Mississippi’s Hattiesburg campus. The meeting was a successful sequel [...]
