# Leadership and Administrative Core

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLEY · 2024 · $189,288

## Abstract

Summary – Leadership and Administrative Core
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) Alzheimer’s Disease Resource Center for Minority Aging
Research (AD-RCMAR) will attract and support researchers from multiple disciplines with the goal of reducing
health disparities in the Hispanic American population with Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders
(AD/ADRD). The Leadership and Administrative Core (LAC) will be the central executive unit of the UTRGV
AD/ADRD-RCMAR, providing leadership and coordination/communication among all activities and Cores. The
LAC will also provide programmatic direction and oversight of functions, including regulatory compliance,
administrative assistance, and supervision, ensuring synergy between the three cores and the Research
Education component, and will facilitate external communications and dissemination. The LAC will promote
innovation, leverage institutional and national resources and collaborations, and will be responsible for
sustaining the Center’s focus on its scientific mission and expanding its research. Specific Aims of the LAC
are: 1) provide efficient and cost-effective administrative coordination for the AD/ADRD-RCMAR, including
support for grant administration, budget management, communication and coordination across its partners,
Cores, Research Education component, and other administrative functions to support and optimize the
Center's productivity and sustainability; 2) facilitate and coordinate approaches to attract and strengthen the
number and research impact of highly talented investigators from underrepresented backgrounds who are
committed to high-quality research on AD/ADRD in Hispanics; 3) plan and oversee the solicitation, review, and
selection of AD-RCMAR pilot grants aimed at identifying social/behavioral contributors to high AD prevalence
in Hispanics and create a system for tracking them until and beyond the awardees' attainment of independent
funding; 4) foster interactions and collaborations at UTRGV, affiliated institutions, and externally, including the
Coordinating Center, other AD/ADRD-RCMAR Centers, NIA Programs, lay community groups, and the annual
AD-RCMAR meeting; 5) maximize and coordinate the leveraging of resources, including those available
through UT and collaborating partner organizations, and institutional and external grant funds to promote the
AD/ADRD-RCMAR's overall mission; and 6) provide systematic, objective and formal evaluation of each Core,
the Research Education component, and the AD/ADRD-RCMAR as a whole, internally and by organizing and
coordinating with the External Advisory Committee, and fulfill all required annual and semi-annual reporting. To
accomplish these aims, we have built a leadership team with extensive experience in the administration of
federal funding, research education, planning and evaluation. Critically important to this project, Core co-
leaders Drs. Gladys Maestre and Silvia Mejia-Arango have vast experience in health dispari...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10907828
- **Project number:** 5P30AG059305-07
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLEY
- **Principal Investigator:** Gladys E. Maestre
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $189,288
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2018-09-15 → 2029-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10907828

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10907828, Leadership and Administrative Core (5P30AG059305-07). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10907828. Licensed CC0.

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