March 14, 2026 — The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), PAR-23-100, is the FOA that we responded to for the current grant award to the Arkansas INBRE. This FOA contains specific language that states “foreign components are not allowed.” As defined in the NIH Grants Policy Statement, collaborations with investigators at a foreign site that have resulted in co-authorship of a publication are considered a “foreign component.” This definition is regardless of whether or not any funding was involved. After a period of lenience, NIH has begun to enforce this policy.
What this means for the Arkansas INBRE is that for any publication that cites the grant (NIH P20 GM103469), there can be no authors that have an affiliation with a foreign institution. Since we expect recipients of funding (whether that funding is a research grant, pilot grant, core facility voucher, summer manuscript support, mini-sabbatical) from the Arkansas INBRE to cite the grant in all publications arising from that support, not citing the grant is not an option.
To ensure that the Arkansas INBRE is compliant with this NIH policy, going forward when the Arkansas INBRE issues an award, the recipient and their institution will have to provide assurance that the funded activity does not have a “foreign component.”
Questions or concerns about this policy should be directed to either Dr. Lawrence Cornett, Dr. Jerry Ware, or Ms. Caroline Miller-Robinson.
For more on this policy, see the letter from AR INBRE’s NIH Program Officer in our Feb 14 newsletter.
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(April 7, 2025) On Monday, April 7, Arkansas INBRE hosted 22 students from the University of Central Arkansas (UCA). The students visited the DNA Sequencing Core Facility at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS, AR INBRE’s lead institution). All of the students are enrollees of UCA Dr. Arijit Mukherjee’s advanced biology course, Experimental Molecular Biology. More
(Jan 17, 2025) AR INBRE welcomes Dr. Samantha Kendrick, UAMS, to the role of AR INBRE Liaison for PUI Faculty, a position previously held by Dr. Tom Kelly who retired at the end of 2024. More
(Dec 13, 2024) Dr. Mohammad Abrar Alam, Arkansas State University, and collaborators have a new publication in RSC Medicinal Chemistry. Publication is a result of Alam’s AR INBRE Research Development grant and was published in collaboration with his AR INBRE mentors. More
(Oct 16, 2024) In 2023, Dr. Robert Shields, Arkansas State University, was awarded a Research Development Grant (RDG) from the Arkansas INBRE. Shields has recently applied and been awarded TWO grants — an R01 and an R15 — from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research of the NIH. More
(Oct 2, 2024) Dr. Stephanie Byrum, AR INBRE Data Science Core Director, was honored with a Distinguished Alumni Award from the Atlanta Education Foundation, Atlanta, TX. Award recognizes those whose achievements, strengths of character and citizenship serve as models to inspire and challenge today’s students. More
(Sept 6, 2024) Dr. Robert Shields, assistant professor of microbiology at Arkansas State University has received a $1.77 million R01 grant from the NIH National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research to conduct extensive research into oral health. Shields’s R01 is a result of Arkansas INBRE funding. More
(Sept 6, 2024) Dr. Tsunemi Yamashita, biology professor at Arkansas Tech University, and researchers from the University of Arkansas have a recent publication in the journal G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics. Yamashita has been a recipient of several AR INBRE funding mechanisms – research awards (Research Development Grant, Summer Research Grant), and most recently a Summer Manuscript support award (1 month salary). More
(Aug 6, 2024) UAMS hosted students from 39 colleges and universities across the nation at the 11th Annual Arkansas Undergraduate Summer Research Symposium. More than 125 student researchers were registered, and more than 100 faculty and administrators provided support for the symposium (feat. AR INBRE and IDeA National Resource). More
(Aug 5, 2024) UAMS, the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and the Arkansas Children’s Research Institute are collaborating on a yearlong project to make decades of maternal health research readily available for future researchers. The project is funded by a $310,000 grant from the NIH, in the form of a supplemental award to AR INBRE. More