# Administrative Core

> **NIH NIH U2C** · RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE · 2024 · $73,590

## Abstract

Project Summary/ Abstract (Administrative Core)
 The Administrative Core (AC) will provide overall administrative and organizational oversight and
management of the proposed HHEAR Hub. The HHEAR Hub AC will coordinate the management of the
scientific, organizational, financial, and contractual activities, and facilitate communication among the HHEAR
Hub members. The AC will communicate with the HHEAR Coordinating Center (HHEAR CC) and coordinate
all of the HHEAR Hub activities with the Data Repository Analysis and Science Center (DAC). The HHEAR
Hub AC will organize consultations with the CC and the HHEAR program clients to provide input for study
design, sample collection, storage, material needs, and shipment, develop statements of work and budgets,
and ensure data deposition. The HHEAR Hub AC will ensure staff participate in conference calls and in-person
meetings with the HHEAR Network to discuss and share methods, workflows, and to develop data deposition
requirements. This will include participation in the HHEAR Hub working groups, ring trials, and cross-laboratory
comparisons. The HHEAR Hub AC will provide a venue to develop and share information for new approaches
in data capture or data interpretation in this HHEAR Hub, and across the HHEAR consortium. The AC will
ensure that our communications and methods are refined to meet clients’ needs. The AC will also ensure that
a Laboratory Information System (LIMS) is used to track all aspects of projects, from initial client
communication through sample receipt, data analysis, and reporting. The HHEAR Hub AC will ensure that the
HHEAR Hub has protocols and quality control measures in place for all steps in the work flow, and that quality
audits are made by independent staff. The AC will assess the needs of the research community by attending
consortia meeting, epidemiology conferences, and holding symposia to gather stakeholders’ opinions.
 The HHEAR Hub will be led by Multiple PI (MPI), Dr. Timothy Fennell (RTI), who has served as the PI of a
NIEHS-funded Children’s Health Exposure Analysis Resource (CHEAR) Hub for the past 3 years; MPI Dr.
Susan Sumner (UNC Chapel Hill), who has served as the PI of the NIH Eastern Regional Comprehensive
Metabolomics Resource Core (ERCMRC) since 2012; and MPI Dr. Xiuxia Du (UNC Charlotte), who is a PI in
the Phase 2 NIH Common Fund Metabolomics Program. Dr. Fennell will direct the AC for the HHEAR Hub, will
be the voting member of the EC, and will direct the DC. Dr. Sumner will direct the UARC, and Dr. Du will direct
the Computational Exposome (CE) workflows. All MPIs will serve on the SC and be voting members.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10415980
- **Project number:** 5U2CES030857-04
- **Recipient organization:** RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE
- **Principal Investigator:** TIMOTHY RAYMOND FENNELL
- **Activity code:** U2C (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $73,590
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2019-09-05 → 2026-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10415980

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10415980, Administrative Core (5U2CES030857-04). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10415980. Licensed CC0.

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