# Administrative Core

> **NIH NIH P30** · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · 2020 · $273,630

## Abstract

Administrative Core: Project Summary/Abstract
The Administrative Component oversees the Vanderbilt Diabetes Research and Training Center's (VDRTC)
mission of excellence in interdisciplinary research, the training and development of new diabetes investigators,
and enrichment of the diabetes research environment at Vanderbilt and nationally. The VDRTC leadership
consists of: Director (Alvin Powers); two Associate Directors (Nancy Cox and Owen McGuinness); and an
Executive Committee (Alan Cherrington, Thomas Elasy, Maureen Gannon, Richard O'Brien, Roland Stein,
David Wasserman, Christopher Wright). All members of the VDRTC leadership have made important
contributions to diabetes-related research and bring considerable research and administrative expertise and
perspective. The VDRTC leadership is responsible for determining the membership of the VDRTC, allocating
VDRTC support of research cores, overseeing the Pilot and Feasibility Program and VDRTC training efforts,
and developing long-term VDRTC strategy. Vanderbilt University continues to make a sustained and
substantial commitment of space and resources to the VDRTC, and the Administrative Component is
responsible for integrating this with support provided by the NIH. The Administrative Component also is
responsible for the planning and organization of VDRTC enrichment activities. In these VDRTC efforts, the
Director and the Administrative Component of the VDRTC receive advice from: 1) an Internal Advisory
Committee 2) an External Advisory Committee; 3) the Pilot and Feasibility Review Committee; 4) a Research
Training Advisory Committee. The Administrative Component also includes considerable informatics expertise
to effectively communicate with VDRTC members and the diabetes research community outside Vanderbilt
and to provide informatics support to VDRTC-affiliated members. In summary, an experienced and effective
VDRTC management team, bolstered by sustained and substantial support from Vanderbilt, is working to
ensure that the Vanderbilt DRTC's research base, core facilities, training activities, and enrichment efforts
continue to be outstanding and at the forefront of diabetes research.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9933892
- **Project number:** 5P30DK020593-43
- **Recipient organization:** VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER
- **Principal Investigator:** ALVIN C POWERS
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $273,630
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → —

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9933892

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9933892, Administrative Core (5P30DK020593-43). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9933892. Licensed CC0.

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