# Administrative Core

> **NIH NIH U54** · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · 2020 · $647,278

## Abstract

Administrative Core
Abstract
The Administrative Core will provide an organizational foundation for all activities of the Center for Solutions for
ME/CFS (CfS for ME/CFS) by providing scientific oversight, infrastructure for regulatory and fiscal compliance,
programs for career development, and lines for communication among investigators, community partners,
other CRCs, the DMCC, and the NIH. The Core is led by W. Ian Lipkin, a physician-scientist with experience in
directing large multi-institutional, inter-disciplinary programs that include basic and translational research
components, and Dana March, an epidemiologist with 18 years of project and program management
experience at Columbia and NIMH, and PI for Epidemiological Analysis at the Chronic Fatigue Initiative. Lipkin
and March report to an Internal Executive Committee comprised of Project PIs and a rotating group of clinical
investigators; a Scientific Advisory Board comprised of external investigators with subject matter expertise that
includes representatives from the CDC, NIH, Solve ME/CFS Initiative, and #MEAction; and a Community
Advisory Committee comprised of center investigators, and representatives from the Solve ME/CFS Initiative,
#MEAction, and The Microbe Discovery Project, as well as other community representatives.
The Core will coordinate Committee and Advisory Board video and teleconferences as well as an annual in-
person meeting of key personnel including members of the Internal and Community Committees and Scientific
Advisory Board. It will foster career development through ME/CFScience Now! videoconferences, a pipeline
program focused on recruitment of students to complete summer internships, theses, dissertations, and other
research projects on ME/CFS with CRC investigators; a digital grand rounds, ME/CFS Gr@ndRounds; and
support for CRC investigators to present work at national and international conferences. We will create a
website dedicated to community engagement and dissemination of research findings from the CfS for ME/CFS
and other CRCs. We will also actively engage the ME/CFS community through social media channels,
including Twitter (@CfSforMECFS), Facebook, and Instagram (see Project 3).

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10000019
- **Project number:** 5U54AI138370-04
- **Recipient organization:** COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
- **Principal Investigator:** W. Ian Lipkin
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $647,278
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2017-09-22 → 2022-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10000019

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10000019, Administrative Core (5U54AI138370-04). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-21 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10000019. Licensed CC0.

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