# Core A

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · 2024 · $336,266

## Abstract

Project Summary/Abstract (Core A: Administrative Core)
The Administrative Core will facilitate coordination among all other cores and supported grants. The purpose
of this center is to provide services that were part of our P50 center from 2014 to 2024. That center led to the
development of numerous interacting projects and grants that we will continue to support. Dr. Palmer will serve
as the Center Director; consistent with PAR-23-049 he will also serve as the PI of the Administrative Core. He
will be assisted by Dr. Oksana Polesskaya, who has served as the Scientific Coordinator for the P50 since
January 2015; she will continue to serve in a similar role in the proposed P30 center. We have identified seven
Specific Aims for the Administrative Core:
Specific Aim 1. Promote interactions among users of heterogeneous stock (HS) rats.
Specific Aim 2. Maintain the center’s website (www(dot)ratgenes(dot)org).
Specific Aim 3. Maintain the Center’s Database and Support the Center’s Data Management Plan,
Specific Aim 4. Maintain an External Advisory Board (EAB),
Specific Aim 5. Promote education of junior scientists and outreach to the public and implement our Plan for
Enhancing Diverse Perspectives (PEDP)
Specific Aim 6. Resolve conflicts and maintain succession planning, and
Specific Aim 7. Provide financial and administrative support.
This core will coordinate the activities of the other three cores. Core B will maintain the HS rat colony, and will
expand its scope to also distribute RATTACA rats, which are HS rats with genetically predicted phenotypes.
Core C will provide genotyping of HS rats, and genome-wide association studies (GWAS), expression
quantitative trait loci (eQTL) mapping and other genetic analyses. Core D will fund Pilot Projects to promote
the use of the services offered by this center and to continue to support the ecosystem that has developed
over the past decade.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10935611
- **Project number:** 1P30DA060810-01
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
- **Principal Investigator:** Abraham A. Palmer
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $336,266
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2024-09-01 → 2029-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10935611

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10935611, Core A (1P30DA060810-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-26 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10935611. Licensed CC0.

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