# MCUAAAR Admin-Core

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · 2021 · $362,279

## Abstract

Administrative Core Abstract
The Administrative Core (AC) provides coherent administrative leadership and budgetary and
organizational oversight of the Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research
(MCUAAAR). For the 2018-2023 period, we have two goals. First, we will expand the
MCUAAAR to include all three major research universities in the state of Michigan, which will
broaden the MCUAAAR's reach to encompass first Flint and then Lansing, where we have
ongoing connections. Second, we will reconfigure MCUAAAR leadership by adding new faculty
(e.g., Mezuk in the Analysis Core), including seven former MCUAAAR pilot junior researchers in
key faculty leadership roles. The MCUAAAR AC has three specific aims: 1) Provide the
leadership, structure, and proven methods and technologies necessary to ensure the optimal
performance and integration of core functions and participants; 2) Coordinate short- and long-
term mentoring, retention efforts, and follow-up for 15 ethnic minority junior faculty whose
research focus is the biopsychosocial life-course of African American elders; and, 3) Engage the
MCUAAAR's unique partnerships with other NIA and NIH research centers at the three
universities in a unique Internal Resources Group (IRG), and our novel Participant Registry to
advance scientific knowledge about the recruitment and retention of ethnic minority elders in
population health and clinical research. The MCUAAAR's long term success is due to the
integration of its cores. We propose four cores: Administrative, Analysis, Research Education
and Community Liaison and Recruitment. Our reach is also enhanced greatly by our
partnerships with other NIA/NIH Centers (IRG) including but not limited to the UM Pepper and
Alzheimer's Disease Centers and the WSU Center for Environmental Health Research. Our 20-
years of directing the MCUAAAR and the continual improvements made in program structure,
integration and communication, position us to achieve even more significant advances during
the next funding period.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10241388
- **Project number:** 5P30AG015281-24
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
- **Principal Investigator:** JAMES SIDNEY JACKSON
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $362,279
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1997-09-30 → 2023-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10241388

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10241388, MCUAAAR Admin-Core (5P30AG015281-24). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10241388. Licensed CC0.

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