# Administrative Core

> **NIH NIH P20** · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA AT COLUMBIA · 2024 · $444,585

## Abstract

The Research Center for Child Well-Being at the University of South Carolina focuses on prevention and risk 
reduction in two areas of critical well-being for children ages 2-10: (1) mental, emotional, and behavioral 
problems; and, (2) obesogenic behaviors. Effective prevention in both areas is a public health necessity that 
depends on a strong scientific workforce to move the field forward. Accordingly, the Center is building capacity 
by facilitating the development of promising early-stage investigators who can conduct and extend preventive 
intervention research in both critical areas. The Administrative Core facility leads, implements, and fosters the 
main activities and research necessary for success of the Center. The overarching goal is to create and 
cultivate a high-impact center committed to the development of scientists concentrating on the prevention and 
reduction of mental, emotional, behavioral, and unhealthy-lifestyle problems, which will be met through four 
specific aims. Aim1 is to enact the leadership, administration, and infrastructure essential for Center operations 
to achieve its mission, building on strong institutional support that includes targeted hiring of several new 
faculty, and drawing on the engagement of a local Community Advisory Board. Aim2 is to implement and 
supervise a faculty development plan designed to accelerate the trajectories of promising early-stage 
investigators toward independence and to foster additional investigators via pilot seed projects and a second 
wave of research projects. Aim3 is to coordinate and promote connections between Center members and the 
Center’s core research facilities—the Clinical Trials Logistics Core and the Statistical and Data Management 
Core, and ensure that the Center’s early-stage investigators receive top priority for support from the Cores. 
Aim4 is to implement planned Center activities and procedures designed to promote a cohesive and 
collaborative research environment, to relate the Center to other pertinent campus resources and colleagues, 
and to advance the Center on a national level. The Administrative Core builds on the University of South 
Carolina’s expertise and leadership in the areas of child mental health, childhood obesity, and preventive 
intervention research aimed at improving child well-being in both domains. Preventive intervention trials done 
well place major demands on the resources and skills of even the most seasoned scientists, but the challenges 
are even more formidable for early career scientists who have access to less infrastructure and more 
constrained funding levels. Consequently, the Administrative Core and associated research facility cores are 
designed to optimize support for the early-stage prevention scientists leading to independent researcher status 
and major contributions to child well-being.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10802422
- **Project number:** 5P20GM130420-05
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA AT COLUMBIA
- **Principal Investigator:** RONALD J PRINZ
- **Activity code:** P20 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $444,585
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2020-03-15 → 2027-02-28

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10802422

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10802422, Administrative Core (5P20GM130420-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-29 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10802422. Licensed CC0.

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