# Consortium-Wide Coordinating Core

> **NIH NIH U19** · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · 2024 · $181,570

## Abstract

Abstract 
We propose to meet the need of the NIAID Centers for Medical Countermeasures Against Radiation 
Consortium (CMCRC) for 1) administrative infrastructure to organize interactions and facilitate collaboration 
among CMCRC investigators, 2) oversight of programs using funds to stimulate Pilot Studies, 3) timely sharing 
of CMCRC-generated data, biomarkers, (animal) models and reagents among CMCRC investigators and with 
the research community, and, 4) biostatistics and bioinformatics support, in response to AI-10-012, with staff 
who bring years of experience working along similar lines in the NHLBI Progenitor Cell Biology Consortium 
(PCBC) Administrative Coordinating Center (ACC) and the Progenitor Cell Translational Consortium (PCTC) 
Administrative Coordinating Center (ACC). The proposed investigators and staff have extensive experience in 
coordinating centers, organization of meetings, collaborative research under cooperative agreements, 
consortium infrastructure, web site, communications, monitoring and documentation. 
We will adapt and advance our infrastructure (hardware, software, web sites and links, offices, office 
equipment and staff) in place for the PCBC ACC and PCTC ACC to extend to the CMCRC resulting in an 
immediate, running start for the CMCRC Consortium-wide Coordinating Center (CCC) on day one. We will 
proceed to expand the functions of the extant infrastructure to additional, innovative use of social media to 
reach all corners of the CMCRC community and out to the broader research community. The CMCRC 
Consortium-wide Coordinating Center will follow procedures it has established and is using for other NIH-supported coordinating centers to perform administrative tasks necessary to conduct consortium meetings and 
conference calls, prepare agendas and minutes, administer funds for training and education and support a web 
site for communications, transmission of data, information and descriptions of methods (e.g., protocols) and 
requests for reagents, biomaterials and (animal) models to be shared. 
Our proposal is both highly efficient and innovative because of the expertise and experience of our 
investigators, the uninterruptable nature of their backup for each other and the uninterruptable nature of the 
systems we will extend and update from the PCBC and PCTC to the CMCRC. The channeling of resources to 
translational research, basic research necessary to support translational research and the extension of our 
infrastructure through social media will be substantial.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10861016
- **Project number:** 5U19AI150574-05
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE
- **Principal Investigator:** MICHAEL L TERRIN
- **Activity code:** U19 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $181,570
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2020-06-16 → 2027-02-28

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10861016

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10861016, Consortium-Wide Coordinating Core (5U19AI150574-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10861016. Licensed CC0.

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