Discretionary Fund and Website Management

2004年，NIAID和NIDDK开始邀请研究人员申请移植研究资金 胰岛和/或肾移植的非人灵长类动物模型中的耐受性。这项新研究的资金 非人类灵长类动物移植耐受合作研究组（NHPCSG）。 埃默里大学被要求通过授予机会池来管理这些资金 我们现有的上级补助下的分包合同到目前为止，已经处理了14项建议， 审查后，管理了5个已授予的分包合同。我们目前正在积极征集 第三轮供资的建议，并提议领导随后各轮工作的管理。 此外，在2005年9月，埃默里移植中心（ETC）主办了一个非人类灵长类动物（NHP） 埃默里大学实验室。这次研讨会汇集了来自多个国家的实验室人员， NHPCSG的十几个实验室共享检测方案和技术。作为本次研讨会的一部分，我们 创建了一个网站，NHPCSG调查人员及其实验室可以访问研讨会议程， 演讲者的幻灯片、实验室共享的方案以及NIH资助的灵长类动物的信息 殖民地这个网站非常成功，证明了NHPCSG成员及其 实验室将受益于一种便利通信和信息交流的工具。的 这些电子通信的基石将是拟议的NHPCSG网站，该网站将建立在 为ETC网站和附属NHP检测研讨会页面创建的现有资源。我们 我相信这两个项目可以相互促进。作为NHPCSG网站的一部分，我们建议 增加了价值的互动和协作努力的财团成员最初通过使用 限制访问、基于网络的协作软件工具Blackboard。Blackboard可以立即 联盟成员用来异步发布和查看共享的信息、文档、数据， 工具.此外，我们建议利用这一方案来改善当前和未来的行政管理， 通过创建一个更安全、更高效的场所来审查未来的机会， 游泳池提交。之后，可以通过定制的门户利用和扩展相同的功能， NHPCSG。通过使用Blackboard，并最终成为一个门户网站，我们可以进一步提高 机会池的过程，以及帮助协同研究人员的研究， 财团在过去两年半的时间里，我们获得了必要的经验 精简与机会库管理有关的程序。我们建议 在我们迄今为止开发的技能基础上， 酌情基金和扩大的NHPCSG网站。

In 2004, NIAID and NIDDK began inviting investigators to apply for funds for research in transplantation tolerance in non-human primate models of islet and/or kidney transplantation. Funds for this novel research were awarded to the Non-Human Primate Transplant Tolerance Cooperative Study Group (NHPCSG). Emory University was asked to administer these funds through the awarding of Opportunities Pool subcontracts under our existing parent grant. To date, fourteen proposals have been processed through review, resulting in the administration of five awarded subcontracts. We are currently actively soliciting proposals for a third round of funding and propose to lead the administration of efforts in subsequent rounds. In addition, in September, 2005, the Emory Transplant Center (ETC) hosted a Non-Human Primate (NHP) Assays Workshop at Emory University. This workshop brought together lab personnel from more than a dozen labs across the NHPCSG to share assay protocols and techniques. As part of this Workshop, we created a website where NHPCSG investigators and their laboratories could access the workshop agenda, slides from presenters, protocols shared by laboratories, and information on the NIH-sponsored primate colony. This website was highly successful and is evidence that the NHPCSG members and their laboratories would benefit from a tool to facilitate communication and information exchange. The cornerstone of these electronic communications will be the proposed NHPCSG website, which will build on the existing resources created for the ETC website and the adjunct NHP Assays Workshop pages. We believe that these two programs can be synergistic. As part of the NHPCSG website, we propose to bring added value to the interactions and collaborative efforts of the consortium members initially through the use of the limited-access, web-based, collaborative software tool Blackboard. Immediately, Blackboard can be used by Consortium members to asynchronously post and review shared information, documents, data, and tools. In addition, we propose to use this program to improve the administration of the current and future Opportunities Pool funding by creating a more secure and efficient venue for review of future Opportunities Pool submissions. Later, the same capabilities can be utilized and expanded through a customized portal for the NHPCSG. Through the use of Blackboard, and eventually a portal, we can further improve the processes of the Opportunities Pool as well as help to synergize the research of the investigators across the Consortium. Over the course of the past two and a half years, we have acquired the experience necessary to streamline the processes associated with the administration of the Opportunities Pool. We propose to build on the skills we have developed thus far in the future implementation of both the Opportunities Pool Discretionary Fund and the expanded NHPCSG website.