# Administrative Core

> **NIH NIH P42** · UNIVERSITY OF IOWA · 2021 · $194,369

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY: Administrative Core 
The Iowa Superfund Research Program (ISRP) is a highly integrated research center focusing on the sources, 
exposures, toxicities, and remediation of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCBs) congeners in air. The center’s 
integration across biomedical and environmental science and engineering disciplines requires organizational 
infrastructure to enable the frequent, regular exchange of ideas, experiments, and data among projects and 
cores. The Admin’s Core’s major goal is to maintain a structure that promotes research integration, enables 
timely communication, and supports research translation that raises the quality and impact of center activities. 
The Admin Core provides vision and direction to ensure continued success in research and stakeholder 
engagement. To meet this goal, the Admin Core has three aims: 1) Provide program leadership and 
infrastructure to ensure synthesis of findings and integration of activities. Director Hornbuckle and Deputy 
Director Lehmler are leading environmental health researchers with backgrounds in environmental engineering 
and biomedical science, respectively. The ISRP Executive Committee, composed of leaders from every 
program component and representing diverse disciplines, works with Hornbuckle and Lehmler to ensure full 
integration and coordination among projects and cores. The leadership actively promotes frequent and regular 
researcher interactions both inside and outside the ISRP through monthly meetings, seminars, and events. 
The Admin Core conducts annual assessments of productivity and effectiveness for each project and core to 
guide recommendations from the External Advisory Committee (EAC), which is composed of nationally 
recognized Superfund researchers and other stakeholders. 2) Provide administrative and fiscal services, 
support, and oversight to ensure robust stewardship of available resources. The Director, together with the 
Center Administrator and Fiscal Manager, provide programmatic and financial services, support, and oversight. 
The ISRP is housed under and supported by IIHR—Hydroscience & Engineering, which has extensive 
experience managing multidisciplinary, multi-institutional projects ranging from thousands to tens of millions of 
dollars. 3) Disseminate ISRP scientific and environmental health discoveries through effective research 
translation. The ISRP is dedicated to making center research available and accessible in consideration of the 
SRP research translation objectives: a) communication with SRP and SRP staff; b) partnerships with 
government agencies; c) technology transfer; and d) information dissemination to other end-users, with a 
particular focus on communicating in the manner most appropriate for each audience. If the ISRP is renewed, 
regular activities will include the biennial International PCB Workshop; social media news feeds; webinars and 
training workshops; decision-support tools for agencies and organizations managing ...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10135985
- **Project number:** 5P42ES013661-16
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
- **Principal Investigator:** Keri C Hornbuckle
- **Activity code:** P42 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $194,369
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2006-05-12 → —

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10135985

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10135985, Administrative Core (5P42ES013661-16). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10135985. Licensed CC0.

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