Administrative

该热带医学研究中心行政核心的目的是协调该计划的所有行政、科学、旅行相关和会议活动。我们的研究主管Elbe Silva多年来一直在UFBA协调免疫学组的活动，并且非常熟悉本核心中描述的所有活动。席尔瓦女士将直接协助核心主任卡瓦略博士。核心联合董事，博士。约翰逊和威尔逊分别从1969年和1998年开始参与巴伊亚州的研究项目。

The purpose of the administrative core of this Tropical Medicine Research Center is to coordinate all administrative, scientific, travel-related, and meeting activities of the program. Our Research Administrator, Elbe Silva, has coordinated activities of the Immunology group at UFBA for many years, and is very familiar with all activities described in this core. Ms. Silva will provide direct assistance to the Core Director, Dr. Carvalho. The core co-Directors, Drs. Johnson and Wilson, have been involved in the Bahia research program since 1969 and 1998, respectively. The specific functions of the Administrative core are: 1. To provide administrative coordination for the three projects and for the data management, epidemiological and transcriptome cores of the TMRC program. 2. To coordinate the quarterly meeting of the project PIs of the and the meeting of the PIs and Co-PIs during the annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 3. To provide financial oversight of grant accounting at UFBA, UFRN, UVA, Cornell University and the University of lowa. 4. To facilitate the purchase of supplies and equipment for the projects and cores in Brazil and in the US. 5. To coordinate the annual TMRC meetings for the Brazilian TMRC investigators, as well as the collaborators and Advisory Committee members from the USA and Australia.