Administrative Shell

项目总结(见说明)： 听觉和前庭研究中心(RCAVS)设在华盛顿大学医学院耳鼻喉科，是一个提供全方位服务的集中式设施，旨在支持NIDCD任务区资助的研究的科学进展。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翻译研究。尽管核心服务的主要目的是帮助 除了构成合格研究基地的成员项目外，还向NIDCD任务区内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个别研究核心主任组成。辅助人员包括一名研究管理员和时事通讯/网站经理。行政部门负责监督各项研究核心活动，促进核心之间的互动，协调中心范围内的活动，如双月一次的研究研讨会和期刊俱乐部，为购买用品和设备提供预算指导，为向非成员提供的核心服务准备充值申请，制作中心通讯，并管理中心网站。行政壳还指导制定皇家CAVS的具体目标，其中包括：1)为研究与NIDCD任务区重叠的调查人员提供集中设备和服务；2)鼓励合作努力，支持发展 (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，促进转化性研究。 这项应用的最终影响是促进人类听力、平衡和言语障碍治疗方法的发展，并作为成功的翻译研究计划的典范。

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.