The RI-INBRE program, entitled “Rhode Island Network for Excellence in Biomedical and Behavioral Research”, is a state-wide infrastructure development program.  It is supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to the University of Rhode Island, with Dr. Zahir Shaikh as the Principal Investigator and Program Director. The grant supports biomedical and behavioral research by faculty and students at the participating institutions in the state through stipends, salaries, research equipment, research supplies, travel to scientific meetings, renovation of laboratory space, and student tuition, etc. It also supports the Summer Undergraduate Student Research Program. Additionally, the grant provides no cost access to research equipment, software, and related services through the RI-INBRE Centralized Research Core Facility and the Bioinformatics Core Facility located at the College of Pharmacy, University of Rhode Island.

As a condition for accepting research support, either directly through a research award from the RI-INBRE Program, or through the use of its Core Facilities or services, the beneficiaries are required to acknowledge the RI-INBRE grant in their scientific meeting abstracts and publications along with a disclaimer.  The acknowledgement may be stated as:  “The project described was supported by grants from the National Center for Research Resources (5P20RR016457-11) and the National Institute for General Medical Science (8 P20 GM103430-11), components of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the NIGMS or the NIH”. Core Facility users are required to acknowledge specific services and usage in a similar manner.

The NIH also requires that all investigators comply with the NIH Public Access Policy. This includes submission to PubMed Central, upon acceptance for publication, an electronic version of the final peer-reviewed manuscript resulting from research supported, in whole or in part, with direct costs from NIH, including  the use of Core Facilities. The author's final peer-reviewed manuscript is defined as the final version accepted for journal publication, and includes all modifications from the publishing peer review process. Additional information about this policy is available at: http://publicaccess.nih.gov.

Failure to comply with the above requirements will result in termination of future financial support from the RI-INBRE Program and/or access to its Core Facilities and services.

Please provide one set of the abstracts and accepted/published manuscripts and PMID# of each manuscript that acknowledges the RI-INBRE grant to: RI-INBRE Program office, Room 305 Fogarty Hall, 41 Lower College Road, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881. You may also send the items by e-mail to: riinbre@etal.uri.edu.  All such abstracts and publications are reported to NIH in our Annual Progress Report which is due at the end of February each year.