# Administrative Core

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · 2020 · $122,521

## Abstract

ADMINISTRATIVE CORE PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT: The Administrative Core provides the overall
scientific leadership and management for the HNRC, with a primary aim of ensuring integrated, coherent, and
effective scientific operations. Within the Core, the Executive Team (ET) provides programmatic leadership
and oversight of the Center regarding resource allocation and future research directions and projects. The
decisions of the ET are informed by both external and internal formal review, advice and feedback. The
external Scientific Advisory Board meets annually to evaluate Center progress and to recommend future
scientific directions. Internally, the Council of Investigators sets policy and closely monitors scientific progress.
Valued local input to the ET also comes from the Community Advisory Board (community providers,
advocates, and leaders) and Participant Advisory Board (study participants). The leadership's key decision-
making functions are implemented via four interacting components: the Coordinating Unit which has overall
responsibility for executing and coordinating Center activities, including organizing the distribution of Center
resources, facilitating information dissemination to scientific and general communities, and ensuring
compliance with institutional and Federal policies; the Data Management and Statistics Unit , which processes
all Center-related data, ensures seamless interaction among Cores and associated projects, and supports
Center websites and videoconferencing; the Statistics Unit , which provides statistical services at all study
stages, from design to final analyses; and the Participant Accrual and Retention Unit, which recruits cohorts of
interest, maintains the longitudinal cohort, and manages a registry of potential study participants. Each of these
Units also engages in methods development. In addition, strong working groups assist and guide the Core: the
Research Review Committee reviews requests for Center resources and serves as a venue for the discussion
of current and proposed studies and manuscripts; the HNRC Operations Workgroup, in which key managers
and project coordinators address project implementation and troubleshooting, and the Human Subjects
Committee, which monitors human subjects and IRB issues, particularly relating to safeguarding confidentiality.
The structures and processes of the Core ensure the operation of a truly multidisciplinary research center and
foster a wide-ranging nimbleness and responsiveness not only to priorities announced at the national level by
policy (e.g., the NIH) and those expressed by the national neuroAIDS research community (e.g., our nation-
 wide collaborating universities), but also within our home institution (HNRC scientific Core leaders, other UCSD
HIV research groups).

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10071084
- **Project number:** 5P30MH062512-20
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
- **Principal Investigator:** ROBERT Kernachan HEATON
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $122,521
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → 2021-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10071084

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10071084, Administrative Core (5P30MH062512-20). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10071084. Licensed CC0.

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