# Administrative Core

> **NIH NIH P50** · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · 2020 · $178,269

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY
The overall mission of the Administrative Core of the UC San Diego Center for Reproductive Science and
Medicine is to provide centralized and coordinated scientific, administrative, and financial management for the
three Research Projects, the Pilot and Collaborative Projects, the Enrichment Program, and the
Education/Outreach Core within the Center to facilitate translation of basic research information to clinical
application. The Administrative Core provides many services to the Center including arranging meetings,
seminars, journal clubs, and career guidance sessions. It prepares grants and progress reports. It facilitates
interactions among the scientists at the Center and among the Centers nationwide. Our major goals are to
ensure appropriate decision-making processes between the Center (represented by the Directors and the
Executive Committee) and the Internal Advisory Committee, External Advisory Committee, the NICHD
Program Officers, and the Steering Committee of the NCTRI Program. We work to integrate and facilitate the
scientific interactions of the Research Projects and the Cores and their scientific staff within the UC San Diego
Center, as well as to facilitate research collaborations and interactions within the NCTRI Program. The
Administrative Core presents the Enrichment Program of international, national, and local seminar speakers to
elevate the profile of reproductive research in the scientific and clinical communities of the San Diego region.
We also serve to augment the many training programs in reproductive sciences at our Center including the
WRHR NICHD K12 program for junior faculty in Reproductive Medicine, the clinical fellowship in Reproductive
Endocrinology and Infertility, the NICHD T32 postdoctoral training grant “Training in Reproductive Sciences”,
the Ph.D. graduate program in Biomedical Sciences, and masters, medical, resident, and undergraduate
student research programs. Thus, the Core augments the scientific training of many young individuals at a
variety of levels of career advancement. We organize scientific retreats, Executive Committee meetings,
Internal and External Advisory Committee meetings, the Reproductive Endocrine Journal Club, career hours,
twice monthly research meetings among the faculty and the trainees of the Center, Individual Development
Program (IDP) discussions for trainees, monthly research faculty lunches, and meetings of Focus Groups and
Directors hosted in La Jolla. We serve as a focus to marshal institutional and community resources in support
of reproductive research. In addition, the Administrative Core supervises the application for release of the set-
aside funds the Pilot and Collaborative Projects that support young investigators and collaborative,
translational projects between our Center and NCTRI Centers nationwide. Most importantly, it fosters
outstanding science and encourages the translation of basic science to the bedside.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9916783
- **Project number:** 5P50HD012303-38
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
- **Principal Investigator:** PAMELA L MELLON
- **Activity code:** P50 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $178,269
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → 2023-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9916783

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9916783, Administrative Core (5P50HD012303-38). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-10 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9916783. Licensed CC0.

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