# Administrative Core

> **NIH NIH P20** · ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL RES INST · 2020 · $654,249

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY 
The proposed Center for Childhood Obesity Prevention will address childhood obesity prevention through a 
coordinated, community-based approach targeting modifiable individual risk behaviors, environmental risk 
factors, and state and national risk reduction policies with the goal of first halting the rise, then reducing the 
rate, of childhood obesity in Arkansas. Recognizing that it will take a fully coordinated and multi-faceted 
approach to have an impact on current rates, we have developed a strategy through the Center for Childhood 
Obesity Prevention that brings together the collective expertise of multiple investigators, and multiple 
organizations in the state, to address the problem. This Administrative and Scientific Support Core is designed 
to provide the basic operational underpinning to support the research efforts of the Center. The goals are to 
establish and operate the center; implement a mentoring and career development plan to support "rolling" 
cohorts of promising junior investigators, and help them to achieve independent investigator status within two 
years of COBRE funding; and to expand and strengthen the infrastructure of the Center over five years by 
establishing and/or enhancing three cores; tracking data regarding junior investigator progress; recruitment 
and guidance of subsequent replacement junior investigators; the number and type of multi-investigator, 
interdisciplinary applications developed as a result of Center collaborations and mentoring activities; tracking of 
volume and usage of core facilities and services by Center investigators; and evaluation by the internal 
Executive Committee and the External Advisory Committee of all Center components. This Core will further 
support efforts to sustain the Center through the development of subsequent multi-disciplinary grant 
applications.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10014629
- **Project number:** 5P20GM109096-05
- **Recipient organization:** ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL RES INST
- **Principal Investigator:** JUDITH Lynne WEBER
- **Activity code:** P20 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $654,249
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → —

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10014629

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10014629, Administrative Core (5P20GM109096-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10014629. Licensed CC0.

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