# Administrative Core

> **NIH NIH P20** · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · 2020 · $330,030

## Abstract

ABSTRACT
This feasibility and planning proposal to develop the Northwestern University Cancer Health Equity Research
SPORE (NU-CHERS) will generate scientific findings and establish sustainable, collaborative, academic and
community infrastructure that will serve as the foundation for a comprehensive translational cancer research
program focused on gynecologic cancer disparities. In order to accomplish these translational research and
infrastructure development goals, the NU-CHERS Administrative Core (AC) will establish mechanisms and
infrastructure that promote planning, communication, interaction, integration, and evaluation to support the broad
spectrum of translational research activities for advancing cancer health equity. The Administrative Core has the
following Specific Aims. Specific Aim 1: To oversee and support all NU-CHERS activities, ensuring integration,
coordination, communication, and fiscal administration across the translational research projects (RP1, RP2),
the Cores (Administrative Core, Gynecologic Biospecimen Pathology Core), and the Developmental Research
Program (DRP). Specific Aim 2. To coordinate and maintain mechanisms to facilitate integration with, and
efficient utilization of, existing institutional resources within the parent institutions Northwestern University and
the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center. Specific Aim 3: To establish and coordinate the structures,
processes, and evaluation activities of the External Advisory Board (EAB) and Internal Advisory Board (IAB) for
systematic, objective, iterative, and formal evaluation of the translational research productivity of NU-CHERS
research projects, shared resource cores, and the DRP. The EAB will evaluate NU-CHERS performance against
its broader mission and benchmark against practices and performance of SPORE sites. The IAB will advise the
AC in program planning, inter-organizational relationships, and institutional commitment, to help ensure NU-
CHERS achieves its overall aims. Specific Aim 4: To build a sustainable Community Advisory Board (CAB)
connecting community institutions to translational gynecologic cancer disparities research that can provide
consultation on community engagement strategies for NU-CHERS research projects, Cores, and the DRP.
Specific Aim 5: To ensure effective and timely transition planning through initiation of multi-institutional, intra-
and inter-SPORE scientific collaborations, grant application development, and mentorship of investigators to
facilitate submission of a subsequent P50 SPORE grant.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9961259
- **Project number:** 1P20CA233304-01A1
- **Recipient organization:** NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** MELISSA A. SIMON
- **Activity code:** P20 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $330,030
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2020-09-17 → 2023-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9961259

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9961259, Administrative Core (1P20CA233304-01A1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9961259. Licensed CC0.

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