# Administrative Core

> **NIH NIH P50** · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · 2022 · $159,000

## Abstract

The Administrative Core will enable the whole to be greater than the parts by fostering a scientific environment
that promotes the overall CORT objectives: advancing understanding of systemic sclerosis (SSc)
pathogenesis, to identifying new biomarkers of disease, and discovering novel therapies for patients with SSc.
Dr. Robert Lafyatis will lead the CORT as Program Director and chair the Executive Committee, composed of
the directors and associate directors of each of the projects and cores with Dr. Robyn Domsic the Program
Associate Director. Dr. Oliver Eickelberg, U Pitt Vice Chair for Basic and Translational Science (project 2, PI);
Dr. Stephen Chan, Director, Center for Pulmonary Vascular Biology and Medicine (project 3, PI); and Dr.
Harinder Singh, Director of the Center for Systems Immunology (Core C, PI) will provide additional leadership
experience for the Executive Committee. The administrative core will organize Executive Committee meetings
every other month that will serve both as a time to discuss administrative organization, but more importantly a
time for scientific exchange between investigators. The Administrative Core will assemble a highly-experienced
external Advisory Committee composed of physician-scientists, working in the areas of CORT projects and
cores: SSc skin disease, interstitial lung disease, pulmonary arterial hypertension, biomarkers, systems biology
and clinical outcomes. This committee will annually review each project and core, critiquing progress, probing
obstacles, and providing advice for new scientific directions. The CORT Administrative Core will manage
budgets, arrange meetings of the Executive and Advisory committees, assist the CORT director in preparing
reports, manage the website, solicit and organize review of Pilot and Feasibility proposals, and arrange
enrichment seminars. The Center will organize the structures needed for robust communication in order to
advance the science of the interdisciplinary groups composing the Center. The Administrative Core will provide
enrichment opportunities for CORT investigators through invited speakers; solicit and organize Advisory
Committee evaluation of Pilot and Feasibility Grants, targeting young, early stage and minority investigators;
and organize mentoring for minority, young, early stage investigators

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10404140
- **Project number:** 1P50AR080612-01
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH
- **Principal Investigator:** ROBERT A. LAFYATIS
- **Activity code:** P50 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $159,000
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2022-09-20 → 2027-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10404140

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10404140, Administrative Core (1P50AR080612-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10404140. Licensed CC0.

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