Administrative Core

项目概要：行政核心 行政核心的目标是提供监督和有凝聚力的组织， 该中心可以实现高效率和广泛的影响。行政核心将由 中心主任，Mark托马斯博士，神经科学系教授。托马斯博士是一位 NIDA资助的研究人员，自2005年以来一直在研究药物成瘾的神经回路。 90年代在明尼苏达大学（UMN）任职期间，他成功推出了两个核心设施 并在建立UMN的成瘾医学发现小组（MDTA）中发挥了关键作用。 我们的行政核心将组织起来，以实现以下具体目标：目标1是建立和维持一个 具有明确界定的作用和责任的行政框架。我们设计了我们的中心， 调查员和顾问小组，每个小组都有明确的作用和责任，以执行使命 的中心。除了中心主任和核心共同领导外，这些小组还包括指导委员会 委员会，负责管理中心的运作，以及科学顾问小组，由 每个核心的内部和外部科学顾问，负责技术咨询， 发展这些实体将共同努力，确保该中心对当地和国际社会产生最大的影响。 国家科学。目标2是为核心小组成员发展和促进教育、培训和外联机会， investigators.我们提出了各种措施，以促进：a）有效利用科学资源， 由研究者个人向中心提交，无论其先前的技术经验水平如何; B） （c）分享技术，当 （d）开展外联活动， 让公众了解中心的科学研究。

PROJECT SUMMARY: Administrative Core The goals of the Administrative Core are to provide oversight and cohesive organization, so that the Aims across the Center can be achieved with both great efficiency and broad impact. The Administrative Core will be led by Center Director, Dr. Mark Thomas, Professor in the Department of Neuroscience. Dr. Thomas is a long-standing NIDA-funded investigator who has been researching the neural circuits underlying drug addiction since the late 1990’s. During his tenure at the University of Minnesota (UMN), he has launched two successful Core facilities and played a key role in the establishment of the UMN’s Medical Discovery Team on Addiction (MDTA). Our Administrative Core will be organized to fulfill the following Specific Aims: Aim 1 is to build and maintain an administrative framework with clearly defined roles and responsibilities. We designed our Center with several groups of investigators and advisors, each with well-defined roles and responsibilities, to carry out the mission of the Center. In addition to the Center Director and the Core co-Leads, these groups include the Steering Committee, responsible for governance of Center operations, and the Scientific Advisory Panel, composed of internal and external Scientific Advisors for each Core who are responsible for technology consultation and development. Working together, these entities will ensure the Center has the maximal impact on local and national science. Aim 2 is to develop and promote education, training and outreach opportunities for Core investigators. We propose a variety of measures that will promote: a) effective use of the scientific resources in the Center by individual investigators, regardless of their level of prior experience with the technologies; b) widespread dissemination of the science made possible by the Center; c) sharing of the technology and, when feasible, data sets, for use by the international scientific community; and d) outreach activities and events to inform the public of the Center’s scientific research.