# Administrative Core

> **NIH NIH U54** · UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE · 2020 · $92,088

## Abstract

The Administrative Core (AC) of the Kansas Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center
(KIDDRC) is central to the function of the center and its portfolio of projects. It provides well-regarded,
proactive, visionary scientific and administrative leadership, an organizational infrastructure that facilitates
research and core enterprises, and it maintains communications necessary to ensure a singular identity that
helps sustain center-ness of the KIDDRC. It ensures that institutional resources necessary for programmatic
advancement are available. It provides a means for the IDD research community to speak with a single voice
with other facets of the University and with the community at large. In addition, the Administrative Core
provides a means for proactive initiation and rapid reactions in response to opportunities and challenges. The
key functions of the AC are to identify, develop, and promote interdisciplinary and translational research that is
directly relevant to the KIDDRC’s mission. This includes promoting collaboration among investigators on
problems related to intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), recruiting new investigators to IDD
research, procuring resources and technologies necessary to advance existing research programs, and
promoting collaborative ventures with researchers at other institutions. This is accomplished by the
establishment, coordination, maintenance, and oversight of cost-effective, generative, state-of-the-art services,
resources, and facilities that directly enhance the quality and impact of the science and scientific products
generated by KIDDRC investigators and their collaborators. During its 50-year history, the KIDDRC has
existed across three physical locations: the Schiefelbusch Institute for Life Span Studies on the University of
Kansas Lawrence campus, the RL Smith Center at the Kansas University Medical Center in Kansas City, and
the Juniper Gardens Children’s Project (also in Kansas City); this makes the role of the AC is especially
important for coordination, communication, and integration of services and functions across multiple sites. The
managerial side of the Core also seeks to free investigators from as many financial, administrative, and clerical
tasks as possible, while assuring maximal efficiency in the deployment of Center resources. The crucial link
between the programmatic and managerial sides of the AC is provided jointly by the Director and Co-Director
working in a coordinated manner with the Administrative Manager as well as the Scientific Directors and
Managers of the four scientific Cores.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10005932
- **Project number:** 5U54HD090216-05
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE
- **Principal Investigator:** JOHN A. COLOMBO
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $92,088
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → 2023-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10005932

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10005932, Administrative Core (5U54HD090216-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-28 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10005932. Licensed CC0.

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