FA 5 Progress Report WV-INBRE - Joan C. Edwards School of ...

Program Director/Principal Investigator (Last, First, Middle): Rankin, Gary O 126EvaluationDr. Santanam, Evaluation Coordinator, conducted an internal WV-INBRE evaluation meeting on November10, 2011. A decision was made to update the way the WV-INBRE database was maintained and Dr. JamesDenvir was appointed to make the necessary changes and updates. An external review of WV-INBRE isscheduled for late March to evaluate interactions between the AC and the PUIs.Reports from the Internal Program Evaluation Meeting held November 2011:Surveys were sent out to nine network institutions that are part of the WV-INBRE network. The data obtainedfrom the surveys indicated that, this past year there were twelve papers published, one published abstractand twenty five presentations at national and regional meetings by network investigators. A total of$9,333,299 of extramural funding was obtained this past year by the various network institutes. Fundingsources included NSF and NASA-EPSCOR. Several of the network institutions have either providedmatching funds for research or provided improved infrastructure for WV-INBRE investigators. There hasbeen an increase in research partnerships between the two lead institutions and network PUI institutionsbut not between the WV-INBRE network investigators, which needs to be addressed. Such partnershipswill strengthen the research base in West Virginia. All PUI PIs’ progress was evaluated and Dr. Santanamhas sent critiques to each investigator.Online Resources in progress: With the assistance from the information technology expert, Mr. BrianPatton and the Biostatistician Dr. James Denvir, we have started establishing an updated student databasethat will list all the students who have been associated with WV-INBRE since its inception. This databasewill help in tracking the progress made by WV-INBRE associated students over the years. We are also inplans of setting up online evaluation surveys accessible to all WV-INBRE funded investigators. Weanticipate that user-friendly online surveys will help improve responses from the investigators and helpgather complete data.External Evaluation March 30-31, 2012: WV-INBRE is planning on conducting the next external evaluationmeeting on March 30-31, 2012. The evaluation core is currently in the process of planning for this meeting.With the recommendation from the AC, the topic to be evaluated this year is “The Interactions between theAdministrative Core and PUI investigators”. The evaluation core has already identified, Dr. David Essig,Professor, Department of Biology, Geneva College, Pennsylvania, to be the chair of the external evaluationteam. A three member review team will help with the evaluation.PHS 2590 (Rev. 06/09)Continuation Format Page