Administrative Core

核心A将继续为所有方面提供科学、财政、行政和后勤监督 中心的一部分。一如既往，核心人员将促进调查人员和 共享试剂、工具、标本和数据，以确保适当的分配和有效的 中心资金使用情况。核心还将继续：提供文书支助；协调 设施核心与研究项目之间的互动；定期组织调查员会议 以及；提供生物统计学支持。除了这些功能外，核心还将开发和 实施一条明确的途径，过渡到核心并实现其独立地位。这个 核心将提供所需的领导和行政支助，以保持以下主题的重点 以中心为中心，实现中心目标。它将对一个试点项目计划进行监督，该项目 为新研究人员开展的有前途的项目提供种子资金。核心员工将鼓励 探索新的研究途径，逐步淘汰无望的研究，最大限度地提高 中心的智力环境。核心还将提供统计支持，以协助 研究、设计和分析，并帮助制定赠款提案，维护数据和 BIOSPECIMEN生物仓库。它将监测和评估中心在实现具体目标方面的整体进展 里程碑。核心人员将编制年度科学报告和财务报表并制定计划 组织座谈会、研讨会和定期会议。他们将邀请杰出的 科学家将举办研讨会并与中心成员互动并与大学交流 和NIH官员报告进展并讨论中心相关问题。在与 外部和内部咨询委员会，计划主任将评估核心进展和 中锋目标的实现。如果需要，核心A人员将与大学官员一起工作 以增加在该中心工作的调查人员的临界人数。如果有必要，Core A会采取补救措施，以纠正首席调查员未能通过 外部咨询委员会。核心中心还将维护一个中心网站，并为 传播有关中心活动以及糖尿病和肥胖症的信息。

Core A will continue to provide scientific, fiscal, administrative, and logistic oversight to all aspects of the Center. As before, Core personnel will facilitate communication among investigators and the sharing of reagents, tools, specimens, and data to ensure appropriate allocation and effective use of Center funds. The Core will also continue to: provide clerical support; coordinate interactions between facility cores and research projects; organize regular investigator meetings and; provide biostatistical support. In addition to these functions, the Core will develop and implement a clear path for transition to and attainment of independent status of the Cores. The Core will provide leadership and administrative support needed to maintain the thematic focus of the Center and to achieve Center goal. It will provide oversight to a pilot project program that provides seed funding for promising projects by new investigators. Core personnel will encourage the exploratoin of new research avenues and phase out unpromising resarch and maximize the intellectual environment of the Center. The Core will also provide statistical support to assist in study design and analysis and help in developing grant proposals and maintain data and biospecimen biorepositories. It will monitor evaluate overall Center progress in achieving specific milestones. Core personel will prepare annual scientific reports and financial statements and plan and organize symposia, seminars and regulary-scheduled meetings. They will invite prominent scientists to present seminars and interact with Center members and communiate with University and NIH officials to report progress and discuss Center related issues. In consultation with the external and internal advisory committee, the Program Director will evaluate core progress and the achievement of Center goals. If required, Core A personnel will work with university officials to increase the critical mass of investigators working in the Center. If it becomes necessary, Core A will adopt remedial measures for Principal Investigators who fail to satisfactory review by the External Advisory Committee. The Core will also maintain a Center Website and faciliate the dissemination of information about Center activities as well as diabetes and obesity.