# Leadership, Planning and Evaluation

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · 2024 · $198,768

## Abstract

ABSTRACT 
The senior leadership team embodies UCCC core values, which are to be collaborative, compassionate, 
exemplary, inclusive, scholarly, visionary, and transformative. The leadership team strives to create an energetic 
and collaborative culture to enhance scientific discovery that leverages the strengths of research community, 
fosters collaborations across disciplines, seeks to innovate and break barriers, and makes critical new 
discoveries, with the goal of reducing the burden and impact of cancer in Colorado and beyond. The senior 
leadership team embarks on strategic planning, recruitment, stimulus for new initiatives, programmatic and 
member support, and extensive internal/external coordination and communication. UCCC leaders work as a 
cohesive team to implement priorities and achieve goals, pulling in members from partner institutions (including 
the Anschutz Medical Campus, the University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado State University, National Jewish 
Health, and various clinical affiliates) and seeking input from representatives of the catchment area. Our specific 
aims for leadership, planning, and evaluation are: 
Aim 1: Foster scientific discovery and its translational impact. We facilitate recruitment, bring scientists together 
across partner institutions, offer incentives through pilot funds, enhance shared resources, and support our 
members by exchanging ideas, building infrastructure, and removing institutional barriers. 
Aim 2: Continuously align UCCC activities across the partner institutions with the goal to reduce cancer incidence 
and improve outcomes for cancer patients. The senior leadership team achieves this through effective 
communication, strategic partnerships, and internal and external advisors in a continuous, iterative process of 
evaluation and realignment. 
Aim 3: Orchestrate strategic planning and its implementation through designated champions, metrics, and 
accountability. The leadership team is responsible for the implementation of the strategic plan, setting metrics 
and holding themselves and fellow champions accountable for accomplishing goals. In addition, the team confers 
when adjustments to the plan are required, including re-prioritizing goals or leveraging previously unforeseen 
opportunities. 
The leadership team promotes and supports collaborative, transdisciplinary research that accelerates scientific 
discovery, clinical care, prevention, education, and community outreach and engagement. Ultimately, the 
process and leaders the UCCC has in place, create a strong, robust cancer center that is continually evolving 
and making significant strides toward the elimination of cancer.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10838372
- **Project number:** 5P30CA046934-36
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER
- **Principal Investigator:** RICHARD D SCHULICK
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $198,768
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1997-04-04 → 2027-01-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10838372

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10838372, Leadership, Planning and Evaluation (5P30CA046934-36). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10838372. Licensed CC0.

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