The goal of the Maine INBRE is to strengthen Maine's capacity to conduct competitive biomedical research.

Sponsored by the National Center for Research Resources and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences at the National Institutes of Health, the Maine IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence - or INBRE -  is a collaborative network of Maine laboratories and colleges led by the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory. INBRE members include Bates, Bowdoin and Colby Colleges, College of the Atlantic, The Jackson Laboratory, Southern Maine Community College, the University of Maine, and the University of Maine at Farmington, Fort Kent, Machias, and Presque Isle.

Maine INBRE focuses on three areas: creating a technically skilled workforce in Maine through biomedical research training for undergraduates, providing research support to young faculty to increase their competitiveness for federal (NIH) biomedical research grants, and improving the research infrastructure available to INBRE institutions through a collaborative network of core facilities with state of the art equipment.

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