Administrative and quantitative core

行政和定量核心将为四个研究项目及其支持核心提供科学领导和行政协调。雷蒙德·M威尔士，博士，该计划项目的首席研究员，将担任本行政和定量核心PI。他将得到领导小组的协助，领导小组由高级项目负责人Susan Swain博士和高级核心负责人Lawrence Stern博士组成。一个扩大的咨询委员会将包括领导小组和高级UMMS顾问肯尼思罗克，医学博士和莱斯利贝格，博士，谁是在我们的病理学系，但不是调查员在这个赠款。该核心将为一名秘书和两名统计学家（布鲁斯巴顿博士和华芳博士）提供部分工资。核心A将负责1。监督项目预算和业务运营，包括与NIH协调并向NIH提交报告; 2.协调核心小组的服务与项目的需求; 3.组织每周的计划项目会议; 4.协调UMMS以外的研究者的访问，举办研讨会，并与PPG参与者协商; 5.提供统计专业知识、咨询和分析;以及6.监督PPG资源共享计划。

The administrative and quantitative core will provide scientific leadership and administrative coordination to the four research Projects and the Cores that support them. Raymond M. Welsh, PhD, the Principal Investigator of the Program Project, will serve as PI of this Administrative and Quantitative Core. He will be assisted by a Leadership Group, consisting of the senior Project leader, Susan Swain, PhD, and the senior Core leader, Lawrence Stern, PhD. An extended Advisory Committee will include the Leadership Group and senior UMMS advisors Kenneth Rock, MD and Leslie Berg, PhD, who are in our Department of Pathology but not investigators in this grant. This Core will support a partial salary for a secretary and for two statisticians, Bruce Barton, PhD, and Hua Fang, PhD. Core A will be responsible for 1. Oversight on program project budgets and business operations, including coordinating with and filing reports to the NIH; 2. coordination of the services of the Cores with the needs of the Projects; 3. organization of weekly program project meetings; 4. coordination of visits of investigators outside of UMMS to come, give seminars, and consult with the PPG participants; 5. provision of statistical expertise, consultation, and analyses; and 6. oversight ofthe PPG resource sharing plan.