# Admin Core

> **NIH NIH U54** · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · 2021 · $241,398

## Abstract

ADMINISTRATIVE CORE
SUMMARY
The CONNECT-TBI program represents a multidisciplinary collaboration uniting 26 internationally regarded
experts in TBI and neurodegeneration across 12 leading institutions to deliver a single point of access to an
unparalleled research tissue resource. To achieve this, we have developed an administrative strategy to
coordinate and manage this strong collaborative team to ensure successful and timely delivery of the overall
goals and all scientific, brain banking, budgetary, reporting and governance activities within CONNECT-TBI. Led
by Program PIs Drs. Douglas Smith and Willie Stewart as co-directors, the Administrative Core will provide
internal and external project oversight and review mechanisms against CONNECT-TBI milestones. The
Administrative Core will also work to establish and coordinate tissue archiving and access procedures for
external, research led enquiries, including procedures for broad and enduring institutional review and material
transfer. To this end, the goals of the CONNECT-TBI Administrative Core are to, 1) Establish multidisciplinary
project oversight and review via an Internal Governance Committee and External Advisory Board, with a calendar
for meetings and to monitor progress against milestones, 2) Establish network governance procedures, including
those to facilitate broad and enduring institutional review and material transfer agreement procedures for the
CONNECT-TBI archive, 3) Create the CONNECT-TBI website to: facilitate communication on program
achievements; act as the access point for enquiries and tissue applications from external researchers; and as a
central and accessible repository for all CONNECT-TBI program generated protocols and 4) Coordinate
management of data transfer from CONNECT-TBI to Federal Interagency TBI Research (FITBIR) Informatics
system to enable access of acquired data to the broader TBI research community.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10241891
- **Project number:** 5U54NS115322-03
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
- **Principal Investigator:** Douglas Hamilton Smith
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $241,398
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2019-09-30 → 2024-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10241891

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10241891, Admin Core (5U54NS115322-03). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10241891. Licensed CC0.

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