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Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) support centers that help expand and develop institutional biomedical research capacity by enhancing research infrastructure. This includes the establishment of core facilities needed to carry out the objectives of the COBRE program. COBREs are expected to improve through peer reviewed efforts and project grant support. COBRE is a division of the National Center for Research Resources, which is itself part of the National Institutes of Health.
Each COBRE includes:
a principal investigator, who is an established biomedical or behavioral research scientist
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
National Institute on Drug Abuse
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
National Institute of Mental Health
National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
National Institute of Nursing Research
National Library of Medicine
Centers
Center for Information Technology
Center for Scientific Review
John E. Fogarty International Center
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health
National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
Vaccine Research Center
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center
Programs
Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health
Visible Human Project
National Diabetes Education Program
BRAIN Initiative
Directors
Joseph J. Kinyoun
Milton J. Rosenau
John F. Anderson
George W. McCoy
Lewis R. Thompson
Rolla Dyer
William H. Sebrell, Jr
James Augustine Shannon
Robert Q. Marston
Robert Stone
Donald S. Fredrickson
James B. Wyngaarden
Bernadine Healy
Harold E. Varmus
Elias Zerhouni
Francis Collins
Lawrence A. Tabak
Monica Bertagnolli
Matthew Memoli
Related
NIH Record
United States Public Health Service
Division of Intramural Research
National Institutes of Health campus
National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award
NIH Public Access Policy
National Center for Research Resources
National Institutes of Health Police
Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare
Italics indicate acting officeholders
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