# Administrative Core

> **NIH NIH U54** · NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY · 2024 · $306,150

## Abstract

The Chicago Cancer Health Collaborative (ChicagoCHeC) Administrative Core (AC) 
leverages a shared governance model in order to fulfill its responsibilities to establish 
mechanisms and infrastructure that promote planning, communication, interaction, 
integration, and evaluation that support the broad spectrum of research, education, and 
outreach activities to address cancer health disparities. ChicagoCHeC builds on the solid 
foundation of a 10-year collaborative track record that includes our first NCI U54 
Comprehensive Partnership to Advance Cancer Health (CPACHE) award. The AC, led by a 
tri-institutional MPI team, capitalizes on the strengths of each institution and leverages those 
strengths to build cancer research capacity at two public institutions, University of Illinois at 
Chicago (UIC) and Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU), and to expand cancer disparities 
research at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University 
(NU-LCC). AC leadership is instrumental in guiding our Partnership, identifying resources, 
building collaborative ties, capacity building, and helping facilitate faculty and students 
advancement in cancer research, education, and outreach within the framework of 
institutional policies. The AC team from UIC, NEIU and NU-LCC have worked together in 
varying capacities for the past 10 years and are a well-integrated team, laying the groundwork 
for a strong collaboration upon which to launch and sustain ChicagoCHeC’s next chapter. To 
guide operations and ensure best practices and the realization of targeted milestones in all 
Partnership activities, we will leverage our established standard operating protocol, a full 
operations manual, and detailed logic models that guide Partnership activities and evaluation 
processes. Our AC is guided by an Internal Advisory Committee (IAC) and a Program 
Steering Committee (PSC). We now plan to further advance the foundation built through our 
initial U54 award to fulfill the following Specific Aims: (1) Provide overall support for 
ChicagoCHeC activities, ensuring integration, coordination, collaboration, and fiscal 
administration across the Projects and Cores; (2) Refine and maintain communication 
processes and structures to enhance the overall visibility of the ChicagoCHeC Partnership; 
(3) Facilitate mechanisms to optimize integration with, and efficient utilization of, institutional 
resources within the partnering institutions NU-LCC, UIC, and NEIU; (4) Organize and 
maintain pathways for recruitment of students and faculty into this Partnership to develop 
scientists conducting solution-oriented cancer health disparities research; and (5) Drive 
iterative and robust evaluation of all ChicagoCHeC Partnership activities.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 11179501
- **Project number:** 3U54CA202995-10S1
- **Recipient organization:** NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Christina Ciecierski
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $306,150
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2015-09-24 → 2026-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/11179501

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 11179501, Administrative Core (3U54CA202995-10S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/11179501. Licensed CC0.

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