# Administrative Core

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · 2021 · $151,906

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY: Administrative Core
The goals of the Administrative Core are to provide oversight and cohesive organization, so that the Aims across
the Center can be achieved with both great efficiency and broad impact. The Administrative Core will be led by
Center Director, Dr. Mark Thomas, Professor in the Department of Neuroscience. Dr. Thomas is a long-standing
NIDA-funded investigator who has been researching the neural circuits underlying drug addiction since the late
1990’s. During his tenure at the University of Minnesota (UMN), he has launched two successful Core facilities
and played a key role in the establishment of the UMN’s Medical Discovery Team on Addiction (MDTA).
Our Administrative Core will be organized to fulfill the following Specific Aims: Aim 1 is to build and maintain an
administrative framework with clearly defined roles and responsibilities. We designed our Center with several
groups of investigators and advisors, each with well-defined roles and responsibilities, to carry out the mission
of the Center. In addition to the Center Director and the Core co-Leads, these groups include the Steering
Committee, responsible for governance of Center operations, and the Scientific Advisory Panel, composed of
internal and external Scientific Advisors for each Core who are responsible for technology consultation and
development. Working together, these entities will ensure the Center has the maximal impact on local and
national science. Aim 2 is to develop and promote education, training and outreach opportunities for Core
investigators. We propose a variety of measures that will promote: a) effective use of the scientific resources in
the Center by individual investigators, regardless of their level of prior experience with the technologies; b)
widespread dissemination of the science made possible by the Center; c) sharing of the technology and, when
feasible, data sets, for use by the international scientific community; and d) outreach activities and events to
inform the public of the Center’s scientific research.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10200730
- **Project number:** 5P30DA048742-02
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
- **Principal Investigator:** Mark John Thomas
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $151,906
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2020-07-01 → 2025-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10200730

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10200730, Administrative Core (5P30DA048742-02). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10200730. Licensed CC0.

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