# Administrative Core

> **NIH NIH P20** · UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY · 2021 · $690,869

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY 
 The University of Kentucky (UK) Center for Cancer and Metabolism (CCM) will be established as a unique 
multidisciplinary Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) designed to develop and deploy a 
strategically designed, sustainable center infrastructure that cultivates cutting-edge research focused on the 
role of metabolic dysregulation in cancer development and progression. The Administrative Core provides 
critical scientific and administrative leadership to advance the goals of the CCM: to develop and sustain a 
thematically focused multidisciplinary center infrastructure dedicated to defining the role of metabolism in the 
development and treatment of cancer and to use this novel platform to develop promising early-stage 
investigators with enhanced skills in an exciting new area of cancer research. The goal of the Administrative 
Core is to enhance the scientific productivity of the center's faculty by delivering efficient administrative 
services across scientific projects and cores as well as pilot projects through an organizational/leadership 
framework that supports flexible team-based mentoring and provides for clear accountability. Thus, the CCM 
Administrative Core is the central coordinating hub responsible for integrating highly complementary 
disciplinary strengths at UK in cancer, metabolism, and data sciences and leveraging sophisticated 
metabolomics tools and advanced cancer imaging capabilities. The core has primary responsibility for realizing 
the CCM's scientific vision, operating on principles grounded in transformational leadership and shared 
administrative oversight. Administrative Core functions will be operationalized through the following three 
specific aims: 1) to provide coordinated operational management of the center; 2) to facilitate and coordinate 
research training, mentoring and career development activities to develop early-stage investigators in cancer 
and metabolism and expand research in this area through pilot projects; and 3) to coordinate and conduct 
overall planning and evaluation. The core will coordinate and implement all administrative activities of the 
CCM: oversee daily center activities; coordinate program communications, fiscal processes, meeting 
organization, and advisory committee input; facilitate and expedite interactions among projects and cores; 
manage the pilot project program; and lead program and project evaluation efforts. The core will oversee a 
total of four current projects, two cores, and a biostatistics and bioinformatics support component and ensure 
highly effective, well-planned team-based mentorship, including basic and clinical perspectives and external 
expertise, for all early-stage investigators.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10073525
- **Project number:** 5P20GM121327-05
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
- **Principal Investigator:** Nathan Lane Vanderford
- **Activity code:** P20 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $690,869
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2017-03-01 → 2021-12-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10073525

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10073525, Administrative Core (5P20GM121327-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10073525. Licensed CC0.

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