Core A: Administrative Core

我们的行政核心(AC)将在以下领域提供赠款管理：1)财务管理；2)加州大学伯克利分校人员的人事管理；3)采购和物业管理；4)与斯坦福医学院的行政人员协调；5)差旅和报销；6)遵守IRB要求和续签；以及7)会议协调和会议记录。咨询委员会还包括计划中的5人咨询委员会(AB)，其专业领域已在建议中概述。预计将与AB举行三次会议：1)在6个月时对Pre-Center启动提出批评；2)在18个月时审查Pre-Center的进展以及全中心申请的想法和计划；以及3)在30个月时评估Pre-Center的成就以及对全中心申请的科学和后勤问题的批评。所有与AB的会议都将以书面记录在案。 咨询委员会还将通过整个研究团队的月度会议、半年一次的务虚会、以会议纪要形式记录和监测进展情况的行动项目，对进展情况进行科学监督和跟踪。 监督初级教师、研究生和博士后研究员的培训和进展也将是AC的一项职能。监督和跟踪进展的计划的细节载于审计委员会的书面报告。 咨询委员会还将有责任在提交报告和特别要求提供资料或举行非正式会议方面及时向资助者作出答复。

Our Adminstrative Core (AC) will provide grants management in the following areas: 1) fiscal management; 2) personnel management for the UC, Berkeley personnel; 3) purchasing and property management; 4) coordination with administrative personnel at Stanford School of Medicine; 5) travel and reimbursement; 6) compliance with IRB requirements and renewals; and 7) meeting coordination and minutes recording. The AC also consists of our planned 5-member Advisory Board (AB), whose areas of expertise are outlined in the proposall. Three meetings are anticipated with the AB: 1) at 6 monhts to provide critique on the Pre-Center startup; 2) at 18 months to review Pre-Center progress and ideas and plans for a full-center application; and 3) at 30 months to evaluate Pre-Center accomplishments and criitique of scientific and logistical issues in anticipation of a full-center application. All meetings with the AB will be documented by written notes. The AC also will provide scientific oversight and tracking of progress through monthly meetings of the entire reseach team, semi-annual retreats, documentation by minutes with action items to monitor progress. Oversight ofthe traiing and progress of junior faculty and graduate students and post-doctoral fellows also will be a function of the AC. Details of the plans for oversight and tracking of progress are provided in the AC writeup. The AC also will have responsibility to provide timely responses to the funders in terms of submission of reports and ad hoc requests for information or informal meetings.