# Administrative Core

> **NIH NIH P20** · UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA · 2020 · $645,740

## Abstract

Project Summary 
Summary: The overall purpose of the Administrative Core is to consolidate and centralize all of the 
necessary resources to ensure the success of the COBRE Center on Host-pathogen Interactions. This core 
will support investigators focused on determining the mechanisms underlying immune modulations in the 
host upon various infections and to identify possible treatments for these devastating illnesses. In the context 
of the current tight funding environment, success depends on many factors including excellent mentorship, 
access to adequate research space, modern equipment, and current technology, freedom from 
administrative burdens, along with facilitated collaboration within this vibrant community of researchers with a 
common interest in studying the host-pathogen interactions in various infectious disease models. Thus, we 
view a concerted human effort as being essential to build our research enterprise. Accordingly, the 
Administrative Core will support many essential aspects of our group's activities including (1) implementing a 
comprehensive, but individualized mentoring program; (2) providing structured opportunities to establish and 
facilitate productive scientific interactions within the group; (3) raising the national profile of the group and 
establishing 2 new core facilties; (4) training investigators in how best to take advantage of the advanced 
technologies available to them; (5) supporting our visiting speaker seminar series; (6) supporting specific 
infectious disease-related School of Medicine and Health Sciences library acquisitions; (7) organizing our 
annual symposium/workshop; (8) fostering collaborations through annual meetings between the other North 
Dakota COBRE and INBRE grant supported groups and between individuals in the respective groups; and 
(9) supporting mentorship programs for which members of our Internal Advisory and Mentoring Committee 
and our External Advisory Board play active roles. As part of our mentorship program we will have monthly 
meetings focusing on science, scientific collaborations, faculty-orientated survival skills, grant writing, and 
obtaining funding to build individual and group success. We are confident that our junior faculty will, as a 
result of such committed interactions, build this research group to one of increased international prominence.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9924565
- **Project number:** 5P20GM113123-05
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA
- **Principal Investigator:** Jyotika Sharma
- **Activity code:** P20 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $645,740
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → 2021-08-04

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9924565

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9924565, Administrative Core (5P20GM113123-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-11 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9924565. Licensed CC0.

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