# Administrative Core

> **NIH NIH U54** · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · 2020 · $310,000

## Abstract

ADMINISTRATIVE CORE: ABSTRACT
The overall goal of the Columbia University George M. O’Brien Urology Cooperative Research Center is to study
the role of abnormal urinary tract development and altered host defense mechanisms in the pathogenesis of
urinary tract infections (UTIs) and their complications. This work builds on the previous five years of funding and
has brought together a collaborative, multidisciplinary team of clinical, translational, and basic scientists that
have taken significant strides in better understanding urologic dysfunction and disease. In this renewal
application, the Columbia O’Brien Center consists of three Research Projects, a new Microbial Genomics
Biomedical Core (MGBC), and an Administrative (Admin) Core. The Admin Core will be a central component of
the Center by providing scientific leadership and organizational structure for all O’Brien activities, and will be
responsible for all financial, administrative, communication, and data dissemination functions. With guidance
from the Internal and External Advisory Committees, the Executive Committee will provide multidisciplinary
scientific leadership to implement the management plan and ensure that the projects and the MGBC are
achieving their aims. The Executive Committee will also safeguard the strong synergies that exist between all
O’Brien Cooperative Research Centers, continue to interact with multiple NIDDK programs, and ensure effective
communication and data sharing throughout the broader urology community. Additionally, a key function of the
Admin Core will be to support and administer the O’Brien Educational Enrichment and Opportunity Pool
Programs. The Educational Enrichment Program includes the Columbia O’Brien Summer Student Research
Program, an intensive 10-week laboratory internship where medical and graduate students, undergraduates and
high-school students are exposed to urologic research and career path training. The Educational Enrichment
Program is coupled to Columbia’s diversity-oriented outreach and physician-scientist training programs to
promote research careers in the field of benign genitourinary diseases. The Opportunity Pool Program will
continue its selection of exceptional projects through a rigorous internal and NIDDK-structured process that
focuses on identifying and collaborating with promising young or established investigators whose research is
applicable to but outside the field of Urology. Through these activities, the Admin Core will promote the research
mission of the Columbia O’Brien Center and the larger O’Brien Cooperative Network.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10022307
- **Project number:** 5U54DK104309-07
- **Recipient organization:** COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
- **Principal Investigator:** CATHY Lee MENDELSOHN
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $310,000
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2014-09-24 → 2021-09-14

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10022307

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10022307, Administrative Core (5U54DK104309-07). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10022307. Licensed CC0.

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