Administrative Shell

项目总结（见说明）： 位于华盛顿大学医学院耳鼻喉科的听觉和前庭研究中心（RCAVS）是一个提供全面服务的集中式设施，旨在支持NIDCD使命领域资助研究的科学进展。核心中心由四个独立的研究核心和一个行政外壳组成，它们相互作用以实现中心的目标。提供服务的领域包括：功能测试，组织学，显微镜和数字成像以及临床和转化研究。虽然核心服务的主要目的是协助 除了构成合格研究基地的成员项目外，还向NIDCD使命地区的非合格项目以及外部项目提供服务。 行政外壳通过中心执行委员会进行协调，该委员会由中心主任和各个研究核心主任组成。辅助人员包括研究管理员和通讯/网站经理。行政外壳提供个人研究核心活动的监督，促进核心之间的互动，协调中心范围内的活动，如双月研究研讨会和期刊俱乐部，提供采购物资和设备的预算指导，准备为非成员提供的核心服务的再收费申请，制作中心通讯和管理中心网站。行政外壳还指导RCAVS具体目标的制定，包括以下内容：1）为研究与NIDCD使命领域重叠的研究人员提供集中的设备和服务; 2）鼓励合作努力，支持发展 核心成员提出新的研究问题，吸引新的研究人员到NIDCD的使命领域; 3）通过旨在加强基础和临床科学家之间的科学互动和合作的机制，促进转化研究。 该应用程序的最终影响是促进人类听力，平衡和语言障碍治疗的发展，并作为成功的转化研究计划的模型。

PROJECT SUMMARY (See instructions): The Research Center for Auditory and Vestibular Studies (RCAVS), housed in the Department of Otolaryngology at Washington University School of Medicine, is a full service centralized facility that was developed to support the scientific progress of funded research in mission areas of the NIDCD. The Core Center is composed of four individual Research Cores and an Administrative Shell which interact to fulfill the aims of the Center. The areas in which services are offered include: Functional Testing, Histology, Microscopy & Digital Imaging and Clinical & Translational Research. Although core services are primarily designed to assist member projects that constitute the Qualifying Research Base, services are also offered, as available, to non-qualifying projects in NIDCD mission areas as well as outside projects. The Adminstrative Shell is coordinated through the Center Executive Committee, composed of the Center Director and individual Research Core Directors. Ancillary personnel include a Research Administrator and Newsletter/Website Manager. The Administrative Shell provides oversight of individual Research Core activities, facilitates interactions between cores, coordinates Center-wide activities such as the bimonthly Research Seminar and journal clubs, provides budgetary guidance for the purchase of supplies and equipment, prepares re-charge requests for core services provided to non-members, produces the Center newsletter and manages the Center website. The Administrative Shell also guides development of the Specific Aims of the RCAVS which include the following: 1) To provide centralized equipment and services for investigators whose research overlaps mission areas of the NIDCD; 2) to encourage collaborative efforts, support the development of new research questions by core members and attract new researchers to mission areas of the NIDCD; and 3) to promote translational research via mechanisms designed to enhance scientific interactions and collaborations between basic and clinical scientists. The ultimate impact of this application is to facilitate progress in the development of treatments for human disorders of hearing, balance and speech and to serve as a model for a successful translational research program.