# Administrative Core

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · 2021 · $243,094

## Abstract

Project Summary – Administrative Core
The Administrative Core provides leadership, long-term direction, and financial management to allow the
Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) to enhance
the nutrition and obesity research of the UNC NORC’s exceptional research base. Given the Center’s size and
complexity, the Administrative Core is critical to coordinating and integrating UNC NORC activities and keeping
the many components of the UNC NORC functioning optimally. The Core provides the needed infrastructure to
UNC NORC members so that they can effectively compete for external funding. The Core plays an important
role in coordination across the UNC NORC to ensure efficiency and to leverage opportunities for
interdisciplinary work. The Core also facilitates the effective execution of the Pilot and Feasibility (P&F)
Program and the Enrichment Program, including substantial efforts in nutrition education, notably for medical
students and physicians at UNC and across the nation. Importantly, the Core facilitates and monitors accurate
and appropriate allocation and collection of Center finances. In addition, the Core effectively presents the
accomplishments of UNC NORC members to UNC administration such that University leadership has
dramatically increased the investment of permanent State funds for nutrition and obesity research. The
Director of the Administrative Core, Dr. Elizabeth Mayer-Davis, is an experienced administrator with
demonstrated scientific and administrative leadership abilities. Dr. Mayer-Davis and the Administrative Core
oversee all UNC NORC research cores to ensure the productivity, effectiveness, and appropriateness of their
activities. The Core recruits members for the research base and ensures their membership eligibility. The Core
manages strategic planning by the Internal Advisory Committee and coordinates with the External Advisory
Committee. The Administrative Core has a demonstrated strong record of success providing oversight to the
UNC NORC and supporting an outstanding research base that successfully competed for $144.7 million in
nutrition and obesity research funding and generated 912 high-quality publications.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10170770
- **Project number:** 2P30DK056350-21
- **Recipient organization:** UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL
- **Principal Investigator:** Elizabeth J Mayer-Davis
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $243,094
- **Award type:** 2
- **Project period:** 1999-09-30 → 2026-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10170770

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10170770, Administrative Core (2P30DK056350-21). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10170770. Licensed CC0.

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