# Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research - Leadership and Administrative Core (LAC)

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · 2024 · $339,542

## Abstract

LEADERSHIP AND ADMINISTRATIVE CORE (LAC) ABSTRACT
The Leadership and Administrative Core (LAC) provides coherent administrative leadership and
organizational oversight of the Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research (MCUAAAR).
The extraordinary stability of MCUAAAR leadership and Center productivity is directly related to the skills of
MCUAAAR’s long-time Principal Investigator Dr. James Jackson who was the PI of the Center from its
inception in 1997 until his death in 2020. Dr. Jackson created a succession plan for the 2018-2023 period
that integrated Dr. Robert Joseph Taylor into the administrative core and led to him becoming the PI in
2020. In this proposal Dr. Taylor and long-time co-director Dr. Peter Lichtenberg become MPIs for the
MCUAAAR. The three main goals of the MCUAAAR from 2023-2028 include: (1) Utilizing our three-
university partnership to achieve exceptional productivity and collaborations with key NIA and other funded
Centers; (2) Continue the long-term focus on Diversity Equity Inclusion and Accessibility (DEIA) among core
faculty of MCUAAAR and building the next generation of MCUAAAR leaders, as well as insuring
accessibility for our scientists and community members attending our events and; (3) Continue the
integration of Michigan State University into the MCUAAAR with special attention paid to the maturation of
the community core efforts in Flint. The LAC specific aims are to (1) Provide the leadership, structure, and
proven methods and technologies necessary to ensure the optimal performance and integration of core
functions and participants, (2) Coordinate short- and long-term mentoring, retention efforts, and follow-up
for 15 ethnic minority junior faculty whose research focus is on the unique aspects of stress and coping
among older African Americans using a life course approach, and (3) Enhance our established nationally
recognized model for successfully engaging with African American communities. The LAC will oversee the
extraordinary partnerships the MCUAAAR has with NIA Centers (MCCFAD, an AD-RCMAR, MADRC, an
Alzheimer’s Center, NACDA and the Pepper Center) as well as other NIH Centers/Projects (e.g. HRS,
CURES). The LAC’s Dr. Robert Joseph Taylor has a strong history with research leaders at five HBCUs
who are proposed to become partners with the MCUAAAR. The LAC’s structure ensures the integration of
all its cores with the REC and with each other as well as ensures regular executive committee meetings,
evaluations of all programmatic aspects and a process of recruitment and selection of pilot scientists. The
proposed activities of the LAC and the MCUAAAR as a whole will allow for even more significant advances
in research, faculty development and community member engagement in the research process.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10912056
- **Project number:** 5P30AG015281-27
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
- **Principal Investigator:** ROBERT Joseph TAYLOR
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $339,542
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1997-09-30 → 2028-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10912056

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10912056, Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research - Leadership and Administrative Core (LAC) (5P30AG015281-27). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-08 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10912056. Licensed CC0.

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