Core A: Administrative and Planning Core p252-262

UMD/Battelle烟草产品测试中心（TPTC）旨在表征可燃和不可燃，传统，新型和操纵尼古丁/烟草产品以及这些产品变化对人类行为和暴露的影响。行政和规划核心A（行政核心A）将为中心提供领导和指导，并协调项目和核心调查员的活动，以实现中心目标，并产生一个综合中心，其效果超过其各部分的总和。行政核心A将有三个主要职责：协调、监测和评价。管理核心A将是中心的枢纽，其总体目标是确保中心内顺利的信息交换、规划和协作，及时实现每个项目的里程碑和目标，确保核心的适当可用性和利用率，传播结果，并评估中心的产品。政策协作小组（PCG）在中心主任和联席主任的指导下，由项目和核心的项目负责人组成，负责中心的日常管理，确保资源的最佳分配，管理发展/试点方案，支持外部咨询委员会（EAC）并在EAC与项目和核心之间建立联系，建立项目间工作组，管理中心年度务静会和双月研究研讨会。并促进跨tors的科学共享（通过工作组和EAC）。

The UMD/Battelle Tobacco Product Testing Center (TPTC) seeks to characterize combustible and non-combustible, conventional, new and manipulated nicotine/tobacco products and the impact of variations in those products on human behavior and exposure. The Administration and Planning Core A (Admin Core A) will provide leadership and direction for the Center and orchestrate the activities of the investigators of the Projects and Cores to achieve Center objectives and produce an integrated Center that is more than the sum of its parts. The Admin Core A will have three primary responsibilities: coordination, monitoring and evaluation. The Admin Core A will be the hub of the Center with the overall objective of ensuring smooth information exchange, planning and collaboration within the Center, timely achievement of milestones and aims for each Project, appropriate availability and utilization of Cores, dissemination of results, and evaluation of the Center's products. The Policy Collaborative Group (PCG), under the direction of the Center Director and Co-Director, and composed of the Pis of the Projects and Cores, will be responsible for day-to-day management of the Center, assure optimal distribution of resources, administer the Developmental/Pilot Program, support the External Advisory Committee (EAC) and link between the EAC and the Projects and Cores, establish inter-project work groups, manage the yearly Center retreat and bi-monthly research seminars, and facilitate sharing of science across TCORS (via workgroups and the EAC).