# Admin Core

> **NIH NIH U19** · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · 2021 · $219,008

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY
Core A, the Administrative Core, based at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Institute for Genome
Sciences in Baltimore (UMSOM/IGS) will provide administrative, financial, research oversight, and general
administrative support related to the program consortium and each individual project and core. The Core will be
co-directed by Drs. Jacques Ravel, Patrik Bavoil and Jason Gleghorn, who bring complementary expertise to
this Program, in women’s health, sexually transmitted infections, microbiome, and biomimetics. The co-directors
will coordinate and manage all activities of the Program, assist Core and Research Project Leaders with scientific
direction and administrative support. They will be responsible for promoting collaboration and coordination with
other Biomimetics CRCs, and foster outreach activities to promote collaborations with pertinent scientific
communities. The co-Directors will be responsible for communicating with NIH Program Officers, the Biomimetics
CRC Executive Committee, the Program External Scientific Consultants committee, and for organizing biweekly
conference calls with the entire Program staff. They will meet weekly to review scientific and administrative
progress, make adjustments, set the agenda for the bi-weekly meetings and discuss the topics of monthly topical
subgroup meetings that they will each organize to promote cross-disciplinary training and knowledge. The
Administrative Core A includes a Program Manager (PM) who will work with the Program Directors and external
scientific collaborators to coordinate the scientific and administrative aspects of the Program, including progress
reports. The PM will oversee the day-to-day coordination of the Program as well as facilitate the materials and
data flow from projects to cores and back. She will facilitate data sharing and dissemination in coordination with
the Omics/Clinical Core C. The Office of Research Development (ORD), UMB, will handle Intellectual Property
Management. ORD will act as the primary interface between UMB and technology offices at the Program’s
investigator institutions. The co-directors of the Administrative Core will be responsible for the overall scientific
leadership of the Program. The Administrative Core A will aim to facilitate the running of the projects and cores
so that quality information is generated, integrated and available to the scientific community. This will be achieved
by providing administrative support to the Program (Aim 1); directing and coordinating the scientific research of
the overall Program (Aim 2); and assuring that data generated under this Program are available to the scientific
community (Aim 3).

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10190231
- **Project number:** 1U19AI158930-01
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE
- **Principal Investigator:** Jacques Ravel
- **Activity code:** U19 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $219,008
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2021-04-20 → 2026-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10190231

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10190231, Admin Core (1U19AI158930-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10190231. Licensed CC0.

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