# Administrative Core A

> **NIH NIH P30** · RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · 2022 · $337,199

## Abstract

Project summary
C-COMP will be supported by an Administrative Core that will manage the overall Center and implement and
oversee an innovative Enrichment Program. Core A will work with both resource cores, the entire C-COMP
research community, and the affiliated Centers to build and support a vibrant, growing, multidisciplinary,
collaborative, and translational research community for the study of pain in musculoskeletal (MSK) and
rheumatic diseases. The long-term broad objectives are: (1) To foster high-quality, innovative, standardized,
focused research on the topic of pain in rheumatic and MSK diseases; (2) To promote translationally relevant
cross-disciplinary research, based on collaborations between MSK researchers and pain
researchers/neuroscientists; and (3) To expand the Research Community in this area, and increase extramural
funding for this understudied topic. This will be achieved through the following complementary aims: Aim 1. To
provide leadership to the Center. A multidisciplinary leadership structure will implement an administrative
and operational infrastructure that unites all components into a seamless Center that creates synergy across
the Cores. The Executive Leadership comprises the Director (A.M. Malfait), Associate Director (J.J. Jacobs),
and Resource Core Directors (R.E. Miller, R.J. Miller, D.R. Sumner). They will be advised by Internal and
External Advisory Boards with complementary expertise and diverse backgrounds; Aim 2. To coordinate,
integrate, and evaluate the Center components and activities. Management plans for the Center will
include fiscal administration, property and personnel management, planning, budgeting, coordination of
regulatory compliance, including vertebrate animal protection. Resource Cores and Enrichment Programs will
be evaluated on an ongoing basis, monthly at Executive Leadership meetings and bi-annually by the Advisory
Board. The Center will monitor current and predict future scientific needs of the research community; Aim 3.
To maintain effective communication with the Center’s Research Community, and the broader MSK
and pain research community. To achieve this, we will create and maintain a dedicated website (C-COMP
portal) that will be a one-stop source for information and a platform for exchange (dissemination of scientific
information, access to enrichment programs and RFAs for pilot grants) We will also disseminate information
through a monthly newsletter, e-mail blasts, Twitter, and a monthly blog; Aim 4. To design, implement,
manage, and grow an innovative and dynamic Enrichment Program. We are planning (1) Resource Core
outreach activities aiming to stimulate high-quality research and provide training through hands-on training and
tutorials made available through the portal, and online discussion groups; (2) Initiatives for expanding the
community and strengthening it through innovative, translational research will include a seminar series, an
Annual Investigators Meeting, a “Clinic...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10488592
- **Project number:** 5P30AR079206-02
- **Recipient organization:** RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER
- **Principal Investigator:** Anne-Marie Malfait
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $337,199
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2021-09-14 → 2026-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10488592

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10488592, Administrative Core A (5P30AR079206-02). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10488592. Licensed CC0.

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