# Administration

> **NIH NIH P41** · ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY · 2022 · $53,340

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY
Administration
An integrated Center such as the NCDIR, comprising multiple laboratories, requires a significant degree of
specialized management to ensure that it functions as a unit focused on one set of common goals rather than a
conglomerate of laboratories with individual and divergent goals, to ensure the smooth and efficient management
and coordination of the Center and Center resources. While the PI will have ultimate responsibility for the
program, we have developed a management structure to respond rapidly to the needs of our research,
technology and computation goals and allocate resources as needed. Our management model is working
effectively, as evidenced by our metrics of success, and so we continue to use this model, although with minor
modifications to address maintenance of sustainable community access to NCDIR technologies and to prepare
for the anticipated lifetime of the BTRR and the sustainability of the technology beyond that point. Rather than
strictly adhere to a 20th Century–style “centralized authority” model, our management structure has evolved to
meet the needs of coordination and collaboration between PIs of each module of the Center. At the formation of
the Center, we thus developed - and will continually optimize - an interactive organizational structure that
encourages innovation and creative input from our teams and individuals, designed to build a strategic
collaboratory that includes strong integration, with an approach that utilizes an “open management” structure. In
our experience, this structure minimizes barriers to communication that might prevent issues being brought to
the attention of the Steering Committee, and activates lines of communication to engage all workers in the Center
in identifying and solving problems. We will continue to apply quality principles to all aspects of our pipeline and
emphasize an outward-looking focus on our collaborators’ needs.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10401759
- **Project number:** 5P41GM109824-09
- **Recipient organization:** ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** MICHAEL P ROUT
- **Activity code:** P41 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $53,340
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2014-08-01 → 2024-04-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10401759

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10401759, Administration (5P41GM109824-09). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10401759. Licensed CC0.

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