# SWOG Network Group Operations Center of the NCTN

> **NIH NIH U10** · OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY · 2021 · $3,584,706

## Abstract

The Administrative Core provides essential infrastructure linking our member core and clinical trials
development teams. It provides expert guidance and oversight to SWOG, develops and maintains our
Operations Center organizational structure and policies, and supports an up-to-date set of Standard
Operating Procedures that cover all aspects of the Network Group's activities.
Administrative Core duties include:
 • Establishing conditions for, maintaining records of, and monitoring SWOG institutional and
 individual membership;
 • Operationalizing clinical and translational trial proposals and protocols, continuously
 searching for development process improvements
 • Serious Adverse Event collection and monitoring, as well as patient safety reporting
 • Quality assurance and onsite auditing
 • Developing, conducting, and assessing training programs
 • Tracking and adjudicating financial conflicts of interest
 • Establishing, maintaining, and monitoring institutional and individual regulatory requirements
 • Meetings management
 • Group financial management
 • Communications
 • Publications and presentations management
 • Contracting
 • Legal support
 • Administering tissue banking, including release of specimens
 • Interacting with key members of the NCTN and other organizations
The Administrative Core works seamlessly with other SWOG components which have different funding (e.g.,
our Statistical and Data Management Center), and it oversees SWOG interactions with a variety of NCTN and
external components.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10159080
- **Project number:** 5U10CA180888-08
- **Recipient organization:** OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** CHARLES D. BLANKE
- **Activity code:** U10 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $3,584,706
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2014-04-17 → 2025-02-28

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10159080

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10159080, SWOG Network Group Operations Center of the NCTN (5U10CA180888-08). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10159080. Licensed CC0.

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