# Administration Component

> **NIH NIH P30** · UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC · 2023 · $1,998,484

## Abstract

The Administration Core supports GM/CA@APS activities to operate and continually improve a resource
for macromolecular crystallography of challenging biomedical problems at the Advanced Photon Source
at Argonne National Laboratory. The Administrative Core is led by GM/CA Group Leader Robert Fischetti
(contact PI) who supervises seven of the GM/CA staff. Scientific Director Dr. Janet Smith (University of
Michigan, PI) keeps GM/CA abreast of current needs and challenges in structural biology and travels to
Argonne twice per month. Dr. Craig Ogata (Operations Section Lead) leads the user program and
supervises three staff. Dr. Sergey Stepanov (Controls Section Lead) leads the computing and networking
effort and supervises three staff. Fischetti and Smith make major decisions about the operation and
improvement of GM/CA and, in consultation with Ogata and Stepanov, set long-term goals for GM/CA.
The administrative structure to operate a successful user program includes systems to receive, track and
prioritize requests for advance-scheduled and rapid-access beam time, to schedule beam time, to provide
an expert host for each user group, to receive feedback from users following their beam time, to gather
metrics on beam time use, to track user productivity in terms of publications and structural data deposited
in the PDB, and to organize beamline maintenance and improvement. Kristin Ahrens maintains
databases of users, beam time use, user publications, PDB depositions and user funding, and she
provides expert administrative support for all GM/CA activities. Dr. Michael Becker, together with Ogata
and Smith, oversees GM/CA prioritization of beam time applications, and organizes publicity of significant
user results. Ahrens, Becker and Ogata together schedule beam time. Steve Corcoran organizes routine
beamline maintenance and care of user samples. Fischetti and Smith seek advice from a GM/CA External
Advisory Board and are responsible for meeting GM/CA reporting requirements.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10709872
- **Project number:** 5P30GM138396-04
- **Recipient organization:** UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC
- **Principal Investigator:** ROBERT F. FISCHETTI
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2023
- **Award amount:** $1,998,484
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2020-09-30 → 2025-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10709872

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10709872, Administration Component (5P30GM138396-04). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10709872. Licensed CC0.

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