Administrative Core

核心摘要/摘要

CORE SUMMARY / ABSTRACT The Administrative Core will manage the budgetary, administrative, and communication aspects of this U19. The Core will be responsible for coordinating meetings and interactions among investigators, transmitting data, communicating with NIH program personnel, preparing publications, and maintaining a bibliography describing work performed, and all relative financial matters. The PI has solid expertise in managing and administering large programs from his experiences as Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Transplant Center and Center for Transplantation Sciences, leading previous NIH-funded P01/U19 grants and overseeing NIH-sponsored clinical trials. The Program Manager will act as a liaison with the hospital’s financial office, office of research affairs, and materials management. The Administrative Core also includes a program statistician, who is available for consultation on study design, calculation of sample size, and for analysis of data from the animal studies.