The National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), today announced it will grant $117.3 million to fund four new and seven continuing Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE). The awards support multidisciplinary centers — each concentrating on one general area of research — that strengthen institutional biomedical research capability and enhance research infrastructure. COBREs are a component of the Institutional Development Award (IDeA) program, designed to improve the competitiveness of investigators in states that historically have not received significant levels of competitive NIH research funding.
