Administrative Core: Project Summary/Abstract The Administrative and Enrichment Core oversees the Vanderbilt Diabetes Research Center's (VDRC) interdisciplinary research base and Research Cores. The VDRC leadership is responsible for determining the membership of the VDRC, allocating VDRC support of research cores, overseeing the Pilot and Feasibility Program and VDRC training efforts, and developing long-term VDRC strategy. Vanderbilt continues to make a sustained and substantial commitment of space and resources to the VDRC, and the Administrative Component is responsible for integrating this with support provided by the NIH. The VDRC leadership, which brings considerable research and administrative expertise and perspective, consists of: Director (Alvin Powers); two Associate Directors (Nancy Cox and Owen McGuinness); and a distinguished Executive Committee. In these VDRC efforts, the Director and the Administrative Component of the VDRC receive advice from: 1) an Internal Advisory Committee 2) an External Advisory Committee; 3) the Pilot and Feasibility Review Committee; and 4) a Research Training Advisory Committee. The VDRC's Enrichment Program oversees and organizes robust enrichment activities, including a weekly seminar series, annual Diabetes Day, regular meetings of VDRC's interest groups, and the National DRC Virtual Seminar Series. A major goal is to foster the training and development of new diabetes investigators. In summary, an experienced and effective VDRC management team, bolstered by sustained and substantial support from Vanderbilt, is working to ensure that the VDRC's research base, core facilities, training activities, and enrichment efforts continue to be outstanding and at the forefront of diabetes research.