# Administrative Core

> **NIH NIH P30** · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · 2020 · $179,901

## Abstract

Project Summary 
The overarching goal of the Administrative Core of the Texas Medical Center Digestive Disease Center 
(TMC DDC) is to support the continuing development of Research Base and to ensure responsiveness 
of the Research Cores to the needs of DDC members in the three DDC participating institutions located 
in Houston's TMC: Baylor College of Medicine [BCM], University of Texas at Houston [UTH] and MD 
Anderson Cancer Center [MDACC]. The TMC DDC is the only NIH funded DDRCC in the Southwestern 
region of the U.S. The administrative and scientific leadership of the DDC is provided by the Executive 
Committee [DDC Director, Hashem El-Serag (BCM), the co-Director, Douglas Burrin (BCM), Associate 
Director (James Versalovic (BCM), and the two Assistant Directors Marc Rhoads (UTH) and Michelle 
Barton (MDACC)], and is augmented by the Internal Advisory Committee and External Advisory 
Committee, composed of renowned internal and external investigators. A clear succession plan has 
been in place. The Executive Committee meets every 4 months and on ad hoc basis as needed. The 
Internal Advisory Committee is comprised of the Director, Co-Director, Core Directors, and Pilot 
Feasibility and Enrichment Program Leaders who meet monthly. One DDC senior administrator provides 
the necessary support for day-to-day financial management and operations of the DDC. BCM, UTH and 
MDACC provide exceptional institutional support and infrastructure to promote the continued growth of 
our center. The DDC Enrichment Program consists of a weekly Research Seminar series directed by Dr. 
N. Shroyer that fosters new investigation in digestive diseases research by supporting prominent 
scientists to present research seminars, and an annual DDC Research Symposium. The Administrative 
Core oversees the Pilot and Feasibility Project Program, which has invested $1,045,000 into 
Investigator-initiated research in the past 5 years and is directed by Dr. D. Burrin. This program is 
designed to attract new as well as established investigators to pursue digestive diseases research within 
the theme of the DDC, Gastrointestinal Infections and Injury. A major accomplishment of the 
Administrative Core has been to implement a web based software (iLab Solutions) to track service use, 
billing and charge backs for all four DDC Research Cores thus making it easier for DDC investigators, 
Cores and administrators to request and obtain valuable core services.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9932422
- **Project number:** 5P30DK056338-18
- **Recipient organization:** BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
- **Principal Investigator:** Hashem B El-Serag
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $179,901
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → —

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9932422

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9932422, Administrative Core (5P30DK056338-18). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9932422. Licensed CC0.

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