# CORE 1: Administrative

> **NIH NIH P01** · UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIS CTR · 2020 · $11,996

## Abstract

This Program Project Administrative Core was designed to provide scientific leadership through the Multiple PI
leadership, the Steering Committee and the Advisory Board, Internal and External. Frequent meeting by
teleconference and in-person assures the smooth running and collaborative nature of the Program. The
Program Project was first envisioned in 2012 and the team has been working together since then to bring the
Program Project to fruition.
The Leadership is managed by a Multiple PI mechanism. Dr. Marianne Berwick, an epidemiologist who has
worked in the area of melanoma prevention and survival for almost 30 years is the contact PI and Dr. Nancy
Thomas, a dermatologist and molecular epidemiologist, have both worked together for more than 15 years on
large melanoma projects that are ongoing. The Steering Committee is made up of the Project Leaders, the
Core Leaders and several key participants: Marianne Berwick – Project One, Nancy Thomas – Project Two,
Eva Hernando-Monge – Project Three, Ronglai Shen – Project Four, Colin Begg – Project Four and
Bioinformatics Core, Klaus Busam – Biospecimen Core, Irene Orlow – Biospecimen Core, Ivan Gorlov –
Bioinformatics Core, Christopher Amos – Project One and Bioinformatics Core, Marc Ernstoff – Project One.
The members of the Steering Committee have been meeting by teleconference weekly and will continue to
meet every other week for the foreseeable future. They have met in person at least annually and sometimes
several times in the year. The Internal Advisory Board consists of two melanoma oncologists with laboratory
research – Paul Chapman and Stergios Moschos, a Biostatistician – Venkat Seshan, a laboratory scientist who
is an expert in methylation studies – Steve Belinsky, and a dermatopathologist – Marcus Bosenberg. We will
name an external advisory board when funded. This will be composed of a Molecular Oncologist, a geneticist,
an immunologist and an epigenetics expert.
The Administrative Core will be responsible for Fiscal management and grant reporting. It will also be
responsible for management, harmonization and distribution of the clinical data provided by the institutions.
Furthermore, it is responsible for the harmonious communication among the projects and with the National
Cancer Institute. It is also responsible for compliance with all institutional, governmental and NCI regulations
and policies.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10268366
- **Project number:** 3P01CA206980-04S1
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIS CTR
- **Principal Investigator:** MARIANNE BERWICK
- **Activity code:** P01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $11,996
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2017-06-01 → 2023-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10268366

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10268366, CORE 1: Administrative (3P01CA206980-04S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10268366. Licensed CC0.

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