NLPI News Details

Release Date: July 16 2004

NLPI Co-Principal Investigators Meeting - July 15, 2004

The Co-Principal Investigators of the NLPI NSF grant came together for a joint meeting on Thursday, July 15 2004 in the NLPI Conference Room.

Goals, objectives and strategies for Year Two of the NLPI grant were discussed, including:

• Time and Effort Reports for Co-PIs and STARS Team members
• Meeting dates for Management Team & Partners, STARS Teams, STARS Team Leaders, and Sub-Regional Meetings
• Small Grants Program submission deadline
• Updating the NLPI website
• An NLPI-sponsored booth at the Louisiana Business and Technology Expo, set for October 13th and 14th in Baton Rouge
• Intellectual property issues
• NLPI's involvement with the Louisiana 1st website and the development of the Technology Resources Database
• Preparation of a Task List to stay on schedule with the grant timeline
• An Incentive Program to assist STARS Teams in expediting their objectives

Guest speaker for the meeting was Dr. Georges Grinstein of the University of Massachusetts Lowell, a consultant for the CERT Institute for Biomedical Informatics (CIBI).  Dr. Grinstein offered his services to assist NLPI / CERT with making preparations to offer degree programs in the bioinformatics area.