# Administrative Core

> **NIH NIH U54** · CLEVELAND CLINIC LERNER COM-CWRU · 2024 · $33,602

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY
Administrative Core
The Administrative Core is responsible for the overall leadership, management, and execution of the 
ROBIN center, and it will provide overall organizational, administrative, scientific and clinical management. The 
Administrative Core will oversee and coordinate all ROBIN program components and centrally monitor and 
evaluate their performance. In addition, the Administrative Core will facilitate all interactions with the External 
Advisory Board (EAB), the Steering Committee, and the other sites of the national ROBIN program. This 
ROBIN center involves 3 institutions (Cleveland Clinic, Emory University, and Case Western Reserve 
University), with multiple enrollment sites (Cleveland Clinic system, Cleveland Clinic Florida system, Emory 
University system) across 2 NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers (Case Comprehensive Cancer 
Center, Emory Cancer Center), with representation across these institutions as project and core leaders. The 
Administrative Core personnel will be led by Drs. Chan, Yu, and Scott, with collaboration from the trial and 
project leads. Both Drs. Chan and Yu (ROBIN PIs) have extensive experience in managing multi-institution 
clinical trial and laboratory-based research programs. The specific aims for the Administrative Core are as 
follows. In Aim 1, the Core will provide all organizational, administrative, educational, and scientific 
coordination for the ROBIN center projects and cores by cultivating and promoting the ROBIN team through 
innovation and excellence, collaboration, leveraging resources, and providing constructive feedback. 
In Aim 2, the Core will provide centralized administrative management for all fiscal aspects of the ROBIN 
center, including but not limited to clinical trial execution, accounting of grant funds, progress reports, 
communication, meeting scheduling and minutes, and manuscript and grant preparation. In Aim 3, the Core 
will evaluate research progress through oral and written documentation, with regular input from the EAB, 
Steering Committee, and National Cancer Institute (NCI) leadership to ensure that each project meets its 
objectives within the proposed time frame and to facilitate interactions with other ROBIN sites for trans-ROBIN 
center projects. In Aim 4, the Core will ensure integration across ROBIN components, including projects and 
cores, across all sites, and provide interaction through scientific exchanges, coordination of an annual scientific 
retreat, and through training and development plans that will ensure state-of-the-art practices. In Aim 5, the 
Core will ensure and monitor best practices for human subjects and animal research for all ROBIN center 
projects and cores as well as clinical and data operations, and to ensure adequate human and animal 
biospecimens for all projects (with the Translational and Clinical Correlates Core).

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 11140138
- **Project number:** 3U54CA274513-03S1
- **Recipient organization:** CLEVELAND CLINIC LERNER COM-CWRU
- **Principal Investigator:** Timothy An-thy Chan
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $33,602
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2022-09-14 → 2027-07-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/11140138

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 11140138, Administrative Core (3U54CA274513-03S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-01 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/11140138. Licensed CC0.

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