# Administrative Core

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI · 2022 · $867,276

## Abstract

Administrative Core – Project Summary 
The Administrative Core (AC) provides a shared vision, leadership, and prudent strategies to pursue the mission 
of the Center. It affords effective leadership and strong fiscal/administrative support to facility cores, programs, 
career development and community engagement activities of the Center. To increase the Center's overall impact 
on environmental health sciences (EHS), the AC seeks to uphold Center identify, promote alignment of Center 
goals with the NIEHS Strategic Plan, and foster intra-/inter-EHS Center collaboration. The AC was reviewed and 
judged to have exceeded performance expectations in the past funding period. It has set new initiatives and will 
take on a new role of career development during the next funding period. The Center Director (Ho) has been 
effective in leveraging institutional support from VP of Research, deans, and top officials of the University to 
promote Center success. The AC is comprised of the Director, the Deputy Director (Pinney), associate directors 
(Chen, Puga and Woo), program leaders (Chen, Haynes, Leung, Medvedovic, Meller, Pinney, and Yadav), and 
administrative/fiscal coordinators. It oversees all Center activities and is guided by three committees: the External 
Advisory Board (EAB), the Internal Advisory Board (IAB), and the Community Engagement Core (CEC) 
Stakeholder Advisory Board (CEC-SAB). The AC is responsible for all daily operational activities of the Center. 
These include organizing seminars, training programs and workshops, regulatory and compliance oversight, 
data tracking, needs assessment, performance appraisal, management of membership, pilot projects review, 
fund allocation, fiscal management, agency reporting, and communication with the Boards, EHS centers, and 
the NIEHS. In its new role to foster career development, the AC functions to recruit members, mentor junior 
investigators, attract investigators from other disciplines, select Career Development Awardees, and provide 
continued career advancement opportunities to members at all career stages. It establishes expectations, sets 
priorities, allocates resources, and conducts evaluations for the Center Facility Cores: Integrative Health 
Sciences Facilities (IHSF) Core, Integrative Technologies Support (ITS) Core, Bioinformatics Core (BC), and 
Community Engagement Core (CEC), as well as the Pilot Project Program (PPP). It promotes cross- and multi- 
disciplinary collaboration around four Research Interest Groups (Endocrine Disruption and Cancer, Immune and 
Allergic Diseases, Cardiovascular and Lipid Disorders, and Neurology and Behavioral Disorders). The AC works 
closely with the CEC to establish multi-directional engagement activities with vulnerable populations, affected 
communities, health professionals and policy makers for public health translation of knowledge generated by 
Center research. In the next funding cycle, the AC will provide research support for innovative te...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10394256
- **Project number:** 5P30ES006096-30
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI
- **Principal Investigator:** Susan Mengel Pinney
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $867,276
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1997-09-30 → 2025-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10394256

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10394256, Administrative Core (5P30ES006096-30). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10394256. Licensed CC0.

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