# Shared Resource Management (SRM)

> **NIH NIH P30** · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · 2024 · $892,629

## Abstract

SHARED RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: PROJECT SUMMARY
The Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Massey Cancer Center (MCC) Director named Paul Fawcett,
PhD, the Associate Director for Shared Resources (SR) in 2010 to ensure that MCC’s SR facilities operate
efficiently, evolve effectively to serve cancer center members, and offer access to cutting-edge, relevant
technologies to drive MCC member science. Fawcett is charged with overseeing a centralized management
structure to monitor, optimize, and forecast needs. He is extremely adept in this role as he also serves as VCU’s
Director for Research Infrastructure, making him ideally positioned for leading Cancer Center Support Grant
(CCSG) Shared Resources Management efforts. Six SRs are presented in this renewal application along with
four developing SR. To ensure the SRs are actively responsive to member needs, Fawcett conducts ongoing
review, evaluation, and analysis of SR operations at MCC as well as strategic planning, instrument acquisition
coordination, cost-effective business modeling, communications and promotions, and education and training.
Fawcett consults with the highly qualified Directors from each SR with whom he meets regularly to ensure he
has full knowledge of current usage, members’ need, operations, issues, etc. Each SR has an advisory
committee of subject-area experts that provide insights for further SR developments. Fawcett regularly provides
updates on the operation of SRs to the MCC leadership, and in consultation with them, he reports
recommendations to the MCC Director regarding growth needs, capital investments, expansion or closure, with
the Director having final authority. Fawcett is supported in his duties by the MCC Administrative Core as well as
the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation (OVPRI), which jointly manages five of the six SRs.
In his institutional role, Fawcett is tasked with ensuring that VCU and MCC SRs adhere to applicable regulatory
mandates of federal and state law. This includes annual cost estimation and rate setting to ensure the SRs
provide cost-effective services to MCC members; therefore, his dual role greatly benefits MCC. With insights
from the MCC leadership, SR Directors, advisory committees, and regular user surveys, Fawcett maintains
superior operations for all SRs so that they evolve with the science and provide access to transformative
technologies and services required to stay at the forefront of cancer research.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10850940
- **Project number:** 5P30CA016059-42
- **Recipient organization:** VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** PAUL M FAWCETT
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $892,629
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1995-12-01 → 2028-04-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10850940

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10850940, Shared Resource Management (SRM) (5P30CA016059-42). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10850940. Licensed CC0.

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