ABSTRACT - ADMINISTRATIVE CORE The Administrative Core will provide the day-to-day administrative and logistical support, coordination, documentation, tracking, resource allocation, and integration of facilities, faculty, core resources, and research projects within the Center for Accelerating Excellence in Translational Science (AXIS). Our overall goal is to provide CDU investigators, staff, faculty, and collaborators the support to continue to be productive, submit competitive grant submissions, and publish their work in high-impact journals. Our team will communicate between the faculty and the core leaders to provide effective and career-enhancing seminars, trainings, workshops, conferences, and outreach events. The core will work with institutional offices to facilitate and allocate resources and activities to build CDU’s research capabilities and enhance its investigators from all levels. To ensure the center and its services maximize their capabilities, the core will evaluate the cores and communicate their progress with institutional leadership, the RCMI Coordinating Center, and its advisory committee (AC), which includes individuals from community and scientific backgrounds. Our advisory committee will work to identify future directions for AXIS. In the renewal, we will continue to align university infrastructure resources that work to eliminate health disparities, specifically through three areas of focus that disproportionally affect the surrounding Los Angeles Service Planning Area 6: Cancer, Cardiometabolic disease, and HIV/AIDS. We continue to align our goals with the university's commitment to cultivating diverse health professional leaders dedicated to social justice and health equity for underserved populations through outstanding education, research, clinical service, and community engagement. The university has continuously supported its researchers and works to expand, enhance, and integrate the research mission. The administrative core will be a leader to ensure that administrative leadership executes the alignment and research allocation. We will continue to enhance resources from other NIH-funded research centers, programs, and partnering institutions.