# Administrative Core

> **NIH NIH U54** · LSU PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CTR · 2020 · $471,255

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY: ADMINISTRATIVE CORE
 The LA CaTS Center Administrative Core promotes, provides and continually evolves the governance and
administrative structure of the Center so as to effectively facilitate the necessary leadership, tools and
processes required to integrate and align the Key Component Activities (KCAs) to accomplish the LA CaTS
Center mission. The leadership of the Administrative Core is comprised of the LA CaTS Center Principal
Investigator (at Pennington Biomedical Research Center) and two Program Coordinators (at LSUHSC-New
Orleans and Tulane University), along with support and management staff at the three administrative offices.
The Administrative Core functions to effectively streamline processes, allocate resources fairly and maintain
compliance across member institutions. The Administrative Core develops processes that enables the LA
CaTS Center to flourish and to achieve unprecedented success by: 1) providing a strong, available,
responsive leadership team; 2) implementing a highly effective administrative infrastructure; 3) leveraging
resources and expertise of all participating institutions; 4) facilitating highly synergistic and integrative
collaborative programs; and 5) implementing a unified systematic approach to clinical research.
 The Administrative Core provides, coordinates and streamlines business and management functions
across the institutions. This core provides the planning, organization, support and communication to promote,
initiate, implement and strengthen collaborations both within and outside the Center. This core also provides
primary communication and organization of the LA CaTS Center governing and advisory committees. Lastly,
the Administrative Core provides an overarching umbrella for building relationships and ensuring effective
interactions among key stakeholders.
 For the 2nd 5 year funding cycle, the Administrative Core activities will further identify and strengthen
the LA CaTS Center as the academic home for a community of scholarship and the statewide hub of clinical
and translational research and resources via the following Specific Aims: 1) Provide an effective leadership,
administrative and governance structure that ensures expansion, coordination and access of research
resources and services across all institutions and all Key Component Activities; 2) Provide for and support an
environment and culture to foster increased collaboration between investigators, key components, and
institutions within and outside Louisiana; and 3) Provide an interface for the effective interaction and
communication of our unified research enterprise to our stakeholders and to the populations we serve.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9957158
- **Project number:** 5U54GM104940-05
- **Recipient organization:** LSU PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CTR
- **Principal Investigator:** William T. Cefalu
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $471,255
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → —

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9957158

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9957158, Administrative Core (5U54GM104940-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9957158. Licensed CC0.

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