Administrative Core

项目摘要-管理核心 行政核心将提供领导，以确保该中心不断刺激新的、 重大和创新的研究，同时提供新的“尖端技术方法”，以加强 向该机构和合作机构的调查人员资助的药物滥用研究项目的目标。《中心》 主任将负责该中心的所有方面，但将经常从 内部咨询委员会，一群由NIDA资助的高度成功的药物滥用科学家 多年来共同合作，并从外部咨询委员会，一批知名药物 虐待全国各地其他机构的研究人员。此外，个人核心销售线索和联席- 研究人员将以顾问的身份提供服务，主要目标是激发新的创新研究 通过核心之间的协作提供。行政核心将在很大程度上依赖互动和 所有学者和顾问之间的沟通，就像他们多年来成功做到的那样。已经有了一个 在这个和这个合作机构的药物滥用研究人员之间的长期合作历史 经验将为本中心的领导提供基本要素，这反映在本中心的进展报告中。 续订建议书。行政核心的人员将继续牵头安排和 组织年度研究务虚会和每月研究讨论小组，包括中心领导、教职员工、 博士后研究员和研究生。 该中心的行政支持将由主席办公室和财务办公室的工作人员提供 弗吉尼亚州立大学药理学和毒理学系。工作人员有几十年的执行经验 这些职能用于联邦资助的研究补助金和中心、培训补助金、合同、研究金等，所有这些 同时处理一个庞大而富有成效的学术部门的所有其他方面的管理。他们 在该中心的第一个资金周期中提供了非常好的支持。 医学院和药学院的院长以及副院长都做出了承诺 研究和创新总裁，继续为试点项目提供资金和其他支持 该中心的核心(请参阅试点项目计划核心中的信函)。

Project Summary – Administrative Core The Administrative Core will provide the leadership to ensure that this Center continually stimulates new, significant and innovative research while providing new "cutting edge technical methodologies" to enhance the goals of drug abuse research projects funded to investigators at this and collaborating institutions. The Center Director will assume responsibility for all aspects of this center, but will be provided frequent input from the internal advisory committee, a group of highly accomplished NIDA-funded drug abuse scientists who have worked cooperatively together for years, and from the external advisory committee, a group of well-known drug abuse researchers in other institutions across the country. In addition the individual Core Leads and Co- Investigators will serve in an advisory capacity with the major goal being to stimulate new innovative research available through collaboration among the cores. The Administrative Core will rely heavily on interaction and communication among all scholars and advisors as they have successfully done for years. There has been a long history of collaboration among the drug abuse researchers at this and collaborating institutions and this experience will provide the essence for the leadership of this center, as reflected in the progress report of this renewal proposal. The Administrative Core's personnel will continue to assume the lead in scheduling and organizing annual research retreats and monthly research discussion groups that include Center leaders, faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students. The administrative support for this center will be provided by the staff of the chair's and finance offices of the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at VCU. Staff members have decades of experience carrying out these functions for federally funded research grants and centers, training grants, contracts, fellowships, etc., all while handling the administration of all other aspects of a large and very productive academic department. They have provided this support exceptionally well during the first funding cycle of this center. Commitments are in place from the Deans of the Schools of Medicine and Pharmacy, as well as from the Vice President for Research and Innovation, to continue to provide financial and other support for the pilot projects core of this center (please see letters included in the Pilot Projects program core).