# Administrative Core

> **NIH NIH U54** · EMORY UNIVERSITY · 2022 · $195,881

## Abstract

The Atlanta Center for Microsystems Engineered Point-of-Care Technologies (ACME POCT) is dedicated to
developing, translating, and integrating into clinical practice, microchip-based technologies for medical
applications, with a specific focus on devices for heart, lung, blood, and sleep medicine applications. The
Administrative Core of ACME POCT described here will provide several functions. First, the Core will be
responsible for providing administrative structure, organization, and leadership. The ACME POCT leadership is
carefully balanced to be equally distributed at Georgia Tech's Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology
(IEN), Emory University's School of Medicine, and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA). Accordingly, the
co-PI's of the ACME POCT are Wilbur Lam, MD, PhD, an Emory/CHOA pediatric hematologist and biomedical
engineering professor based at both Georgia Tech and Emory with experience in POC technology
development (with recent FDA approval of a hematology medical device), Greg Martin, MD, MSc, who is a
clinical pulmonologist, Associate Division Director for Critical Care at Emory, and Director of the Georgia
CTSA's Clinical Research Network, and Oliver Brand, PhD, a micro/nanosystems engineer and Executive
Director of the IEN at Georgia Tech. In addition, the Administrative Core will also provide communication
support throughout the ACME POCT. By design, to facilitate communication among the Cores of the ACME
POCT, each PI leads one of the Cores such that the leadership of the Center is involved with the day to day
activities of a major aspect of the ACME POCT. In addition, due to the complex nature of our Center, the
ACME POCT will engage in multiple meetings to ensure cross-communication among the different Cores and
the PDDP projects. Importantly, the Program Administrator will attend all meetings to ensure that all Cores and
programs of the ACME POCT tie together. Moreover, web-based and social media tools will be used to
communicate announcements, such as our national annual Pilot Device Development Program grant
solicitations and our Annual National POC Conference. Finally, the Administrative Core will continuously
evaluate and improve the ACME POCT. To that end, the Administrative Core will coordinate with the
leadership of the Technology Training and Dissemination Core to gather and analyze evaluative data to
identify challenges in optimizing the impact of ACME POCT activities across each Core function. These data
will be shared with the External Advisory Board and serve for continuous quality improvement activities
internally and in partner institutions, including specifically in enhancing quality and efficiency of technology
development and validation. Therefore, a primary responsibility of the Administrative Core will be interpreting
information about ACME POCT performance and developing plans for changes and improvements.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10488288
- **Project number:** 5U54EB027690-05
- **Recipient organization:** EMORY UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Wilbur A Lam
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $195,881
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2018-09-18 → 2023-09-12

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10488288

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10488288, Administrative Core (5U54EB027690-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10488288. Licensed CC0.

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