# Administrative Core

> **NIH NIH P30** · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · 2021 · $605,905

## Abstract

ADMINISTRATIVE CORE: PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT 
Administration: The associate director of administration, Donna Berrier, MPA, directs the administrative 
management of the Cancer Center Support Grant at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Massey Cancer 
Center (MCC). Administration is centrally located in the Goodwin Research Laboratory (GRL), where the MCC 
director, deputy director, and associate directors for administration, basic and translational research reside. 
Executive Committee meetings, as well as leadership meetings that include associate directors, program 
leaders, and core directors are held in GRL, which promotes collaboration and integration of administration 
with MCC leadership. The administrative team has oversight for all membership-related activities, financial and 
business activities, basic and clinical research administration, communications, IT, building operations, and 
human resources of the center. Administrative oversight of MCC-managed cores and cores co-managed with 
the institution is shared between MCC administration and the VCU Office of Research and Innovation. The 
broad, long-range objectives of the administrative team are to provide exceptional administrative leadership, 
management, and fiscal oversight for the activities of the Executive Committee, program co-leaders, core 
directors, and members of MCC to achieve the strategic goals and mission of the center. There are 34 FTE on 
the administration team; of those, support for 0.785 FTE is requested from the Cancer Center Support Grant 
Administrative budget. The remaining staff are covered by institutional funds. 
Senior Leadership: The senior leadership of MCC consists of the director (Gordon Ginder, MD), deputy 
director (Steven Grossman, MD, PhD), and 7 associate directors (Charles Clevenger, MD, PhD [basis 
research], Charles Geyer, MD [clinical research], Steven Grant, MD [translational research], Bernard 
Fuemmeler, PhD [cancer prevention and control], Paul Fawcett, PhD [shared resources], Devanand Sarkar, 
PhD [education and training], and Berrier, MPA [administration]). The senior leadership is responsible for the 
overall planning and evaluation of the scientific programs, the cross-cutting focus groups including the disease- 
specific focus groups, and the shared resources. The Executive Committee leads strategic planning and 
establishes policies and practices within MCC. The Executive Committee meets monthly with program co- 
leaders and is tasked with oversight and review of scientific research development within and among the 
program membership, and it is focused on ways to improve inter- and intraprogrammatic collaborations and 
how best to utilize financial resources provided by MCC for program development.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10174753
- **Project number:** 5P30CA016059-40
- **Recipient organization:** VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Robert A. Winn
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $605,905
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1995-12-01 → 2023-04-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10174753

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10174753, Administrative Core (5P30CA016059-40). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10174753. Licensed CC0.

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