# Administrative Core

> **NIH NIH U10** · DANA-FARBER CANCER INST · 2024 · $1,077,038

## Abstract

The role of the Administrative core is to coordinate and integrate the multiple components of the 
ECOG-ACRIN Statistics and Data Management Center (SDMC) and to provide scientific, 
administrative, and fiscal oversight of SDMC activities. It is also responsible for coordinating 
collaborations with other NCTN Groups and other research organizations, for coordinating the 
participation of the SDMC in the collective management of the NCTN, and for ensuring timely provision 
of data and other resources generated from ECOG-ACRIN projects to the broader scientific community. 
The SDMC consists of the Biostatistics Center, with personnel at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 
(SDMC-DFCI) and Brown University (SDMC-Brown), and the Data Management Center, with personnel 
at the ECOG-ACRIN Medical Research Foundation (SDMC-EAMRF) and at the American College of 
Radiology (SDMC-ACR). The Group Statisticians, Dr. Robert Gray at DFCI and Dr. Constantine 
Gatsonis at Brown are responsible for all aspects of the SDMC operations. SDMC-DFCI and SDMC- 
EAMRF are responsible for therapeutic studies, under the leadership of Dr. Gray, and SDMC-Brown 
and SDMC-ACR are responsible for diagnostic and advanced imaging studies, under the leadership of 
Dr. Gatsonis. The SDMC components use a common set of Standard Operating Procedures. There 
are well-established procedures to facilitate communication and coordination among the components 
and between the SDMC and other ECOG-ACRIN components. The SDMC participates fully in the 
collective management of the NCTN and has numerous collaborations with other research entities. 
The SDMC has provided data from ECOG-ACRIN studies to numerous researchers. Going forward, 
most data sharing will be occurring through the NCTN/NCORP Data Archive, and the SDMC is fully 
committed to timely submission of data sets from ECOG-ACRIN publications to the Archive. The 
SDMC is also contributing image libraries to The Cancer Imaging Archive.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10796895
- **Project number:** 5U10CA180794-11
- **Recipient organization:** DANA-FARBER CANCER INST
- **Principal Investigator:** ROBERT J GRAY
- **Activity code:** U10 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $1,077,038
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2014-04-29 → 2026-02-28

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10796895

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10796895, Administrative Core (5U10CA180794-11). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10796895. Licensed CC0.

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