Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health National Center for Research R

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Department of Health and Human Services
National Institutes of Health National
Center for Research ResourcesDivision of
Research Infrastructure

• Extending the Reach of Advanced Networking
  Two Pilot Projects at the NCRR
• Susan R. Kayar, Ph.D.
• Shelia A. McClure, Ph.D.
• www.ncrr.nih.gov/resinfra.htm

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Institutional Development Award (IDeA)/DRI

• Designed to enhance the competitiveness for
  biomedical research funding of institutions
  located in states with historically low funding
  from NIH.
• Inclusion of underserved populations is a primary
  feature.
• Research focus is broad.

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Eligible States

• 23 States and Puerto Rico

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How is the Internet used at IDeA-Funded
Institutions?

• Communications
• E-mail and basic computer services
• Library access
• Website design and utilization
• Video teleconferencing
• Genomics and Proteomics data management
• Imaging
• Equipment linking and collaboratories
• Data Mining
• Computing at high speed, high capacity
• Archiving of databases

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IDeANet Project

• Increased connectivity for high-bandwidth science
  applications in six western IDeA states is first
  step.

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Geographic Reality of Western Region IDeANet
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Internet2 Abilene 10gb/s Upgrade
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Connections to Backbone
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Multiple Levels of Benefit

• IDeANet will relieve strategic bottlenecks in
  connectivity entering states.
• One major university campus per state to be
  directly linked.
• In general, connectivity of on-campus and
  in-state networks is relatively high.
• Many sites throughout states will experience
  improved Internet performance.
• Can leverage benefits to other university
  departments and other institutions.

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Additional Institutional Needs

• End-to-end performance evaluation at all sites
• Before/after performance metrics
• Assessment of needs for computer configurations,
  software, etc.
• Address IT personnel issues (wizard gap)
• Assess opportunities for achieving better
  connectivity to other institutions in each state.
  

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Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI)

• Designed to expand the Nations capacity for
  conducting biomedical research at institutions
  with 50 or greater enrollment of
  underrepresented minorities that grant doctoral
  degrees in health/health-related sciences
• Strengthen research environments and improve
  faculty research competitiveness
• Enhance the clinical research capacity

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How is the Internet used at RCMI Institutions ?

• All the usual academic uses
• Research training and faculty development
• Bioinformatics and computational biology
• Research networks on health disparities
• Global collaborations

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RCMI Translational Research Network (RTRN) Goals

• Establish a stable high performance network
  linking RCMI sites and other sites (using
  Internet2 Abilene infrastructure)
• Establish distributed and linked data collections
  for the test bed clinical research projects
• Enable data mining from multiple data collections
  or databases
• Develop a stable software and hardware
  infrastructure with partnering groups that will
  allow centers to coordinate efforts to accumulate
  larger studies than can be carried out at one site

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RCMI Translational Research Network (RTRN)

• The RTRN will include
• Consortium of clinical investigators from the
  RCMI Clinical Research Centers
• Translational and clinical investigators from
  other RCMI institutions as appropriate for
  studies
• Other NIH-supported Clinical Research Centers
• Other relevant organizations, including patient
  support organizations, for the study of a
  subgroup of diseases and
• Data and Technology Coordinating Center (DTCC)

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RTRN - DTCC

• The DTCC will provide
• Scalable coordinated clinical data management
  system for collection, storage, and analysis of
  data of the RTRN
• Portal and tools for integration of developed and
  publicly available datasets for data mining at
  RCMI Centers
• Web based recruitment and referral
• User friendly resource site for the public,
  research scientists, and clinicians

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RTRN

• This cooperative program should
• facilitate identification of biomarkers for
  disease risk, disease severity/activity, and
  clinical outcomes
• encourage development of new approaches to
  diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of those
  diseases that disproportionately affect minority
  populations