# Administrative Core

> **NIH NIH P20** · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA AT COLUMBIA · 2020 · $529,159

## Abstract

The Research Center for Child Well-Being at the University of South Carolina focuses on prevention and risk
reduction in two areas of critical well-being for children ages 2-10: (1) mental, emotional, and behavioral
problems; and, (2) obesogenic behaviors. Effective prevention in both areas is a public health necessity that
depends on a strong scientific workforce to move the field forward. Accordingly, the Center is building capacity
by facilitating the development of promising early-stage investigators who can conduct and extend preventive
intervention research in both critical areas. The Administrative Core facility leads, implements, and fosters the
main activities and research necessary for success of the Center. The overarching goal is to create and
cultivate a high-impact center committed to the development of scientists concentrating on the prevention and
reduction of mental, emotional, behavioral, and unhealthy-lifestyle problems, which will be met through four
specific aims. Aim1 is to enact the leadership, administration, and infrastructure essential for Center operations
to achieve its mission, building on strong institutional support that includes targeted hiring of several new
faculty, and drawing on the engagement of a local Community Advisory Board. Aim2 is to implement and
supervise a faculty development plan designed to accelerate the trajectories of promising early-stage
investigators toward independence and to foster additional investigators via pilot seed projects and a second
wave of research projects. Aim3 is to coordinate and promote connections between Center members and the
Center’s core research facilities—the Clinical Trials Logistics Core and the Statistical and Data Management
Core, and ensure that the Center’s early-stage investigators receive top priority for support from the Cores.
Aim4 is to implement planned Center activities and procedures designed to promote a cohesive and
collaborative research environment, to relate the Center to other pertinent campus resources and colleagues,
and to advance the Center on a national level. The Administrative Core builds on the University of South
Carolina’s expertise and leadership in the areas of child mental health, childhood obesity, and preventive
intervention research aimed at improving child well-being in both domains. Preventive intervention trials done
well place major demands on the resources and skills of even the most seasoned scientists, but the challenges
are even more formidable for early career scientists who have access to less infrastructure and more
constrained funding levels. Consequently, the Administrative Core and associated research facility cores are
designed to optimize support for the early-stage prevention scientists leading to independent researcher status
and major contributions to child well-being.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9852055
- **Project number:** 1P20GM130420-01A1
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA AT COLUMBIA
- **Principal Investigator:** RONALD J PRINZ
- **Activity code:** P20 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $529,159
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** — → —

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9852055

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9852055, Administrative Core (1P20GM130420-01A1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9852055. Licensed CC0.

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