# CENTER CORE FOR VISION RESEARCH

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON · 2021 · $66,651

## Abstract

The Administrative Core supervises and manages the Center Core Grant for Vision Research at
the University of Houston that serves Core investigators in the College of Optometry Vision and
Clinical Sciences, and in Biomedical Engineering. It oversees, coordinates and integrates the
activities of the four resource/service modules. Direction of the Core and its modules is the
responsibility of the PI, and the Core Executive Committee that the PI chairs. The Executive
Committee is composed of the Directors of the four Core Modules, and two additional NEI-funded
Core investigators who represent participating department and institute interests. The Core
Executive Committee establishes and oversees guidelines for utilization of Core Modules,
including setting priorities for work requests to the Modules. It reviews Module access and
utilization, budget and policy, conflicts and other problems, to make decisions requiring
interpretation or establishment of policy and to plan strategy for future growth. The Executive
committee formally meets three times a year, once in each University term. The Fall meeting is
open to all Core investigators and the Winter/Spring meeting includes the full Advisory Committee
which, in addition to the Executive Committee, includes External Advisors who were selected for
their wisdom and expertise in science and administration. The Administrative Core has necessary
staff support with dedicated time, drawn from full-time staff in the College of Optometry: a Core
Financial Coordinator who provides the full scope of grants management and monthly budget
reports to the Core, and staff to arrange Executive (and Advisory) Committee meetings and other
core events, do ordering for the Modules, communicate with Core investigators about requests
for maintenance and repairs, track timelines for maintenance contracts for Core equipment, and
monitor compliance requirements for Core investigators. The Administrative Core is directed by
Dr. Laura Frishman (John and Rebecca Moores Professor), a retinal physiologist with 14 years'
service as the Core PI.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10194504
- **Project number:** 5P30EY007551-34
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON
- **Principal Investigator:** LAURA J. FRISHMAN
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $66,651
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1997-03-01 → 2023-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10194504

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10194504, CENTER CORE FOR VISION RESEARCH (5P30EY007551-34). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10194504. Licensed CC0.

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