The National Association of IDeA Principal Investigators (NAIPI) is the collective voice of all of us in the IDeA community.
NAIPI aims to protect and promote the IDeA programs. It fosters interactions, promotes resource sharing, enhances the national visibility of the INBREs, COBREs, and CTRs, develops consensus on priorities, identifies and disseminates best practices, identifies opportunities and develops strategies.
Regional News
Updates and Significant Events from the NAIPI States
The 9th Biennial National IDeA Symposium of Biomedical Research Excellence (NISBRE) will be held in Washington, D.C. June 16-19, 2024 at the Washington Hilton. Louisiana State University (LSU) has been awarded an NIH: NIGMS U13 grant to organize 2022, 2024, and 2026 NISBRE meetings.
The NISBRE is a national scientific meeting to showcase the scientific and training accomplishments of the IDeA program of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS). The IDeA program develops scientific centers of excellence and also supports Networks such as INBRE, COBRE, and IDeA-CTR programs and trains biomedical scientists in the IDeA-eligible states.
NAIPI Funding Stats
NAIPI Leadership Team
The Executive Committee and Past NAIPI President
Dr. R. Scott Seville
President NAIPI
Director, NIH IDeA Wyoming INBRE
Department Head and Professor of Zoology and Physiology at the University of Wyoming
sseville@uwyo.edu
Dr. Konstantin Gus Kousoulas,
Previous President, NAIPI
Director of the Division of Biotechnology & Molecular Medicine (BIOMMED) at Louisiana State University
vtgusk@lsu.edu
Dr. Alan Tackett
Vice President, NAIPI
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
AJTackett@uams.edu
Dr. Lucy Liaw
Secretary, NAIPI
MaineHealth Institute for Research
Lucy.Liaw@mainehealth.org
Dr. Curtis Noonan
Treasurer, NAIPI
Director, PI Center for Population Health Research, Montana