# Admin Core

> **NIH NIH P50** · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · 2020 · $250,440

## Abstract

Administrative Core Summary
The Administrative Core of the Center (directed by Dr. Deisseroth) will shoulder the complex burden of
coordination and communication across projects, cores, collaborators, and visiting scientists; will manage
financial, administrative, approval, and safety issues; and will oversee and implement data sharing and
dissemination. For a Center seeking to break technological barriers, while also teaching and training in existing
technologies, and using all of these technologies to discover new principles regarding drug action on the brain,
a robust and well-integrated Administrative Core will be fundamental to rigorous, safe, stable, and effective
implementation. Monthly full meetings and weekly subgroup meetings will require steady and experienced
staff to coordinate. The Center by necessity also includes substantial complexity in terms of personnel,
finances, and safety. The diverse network of staff scientists, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows,
collaborators, and training activity is essential to the Center and requires an able Administrative Core to
implement, track, manage, and report. These efforts will include managing compliance and approval on human
subjects research, animal protocols, safety inspections, DEA and drug use regulations, progress reports,
publication management; financial projections, reimbursements, auditing, and accounting; and interactions
with University resources that will be leveraged. Finally, the greatest opportunity of the Center—sharing of data
and technology-- is also its greatest challenge. The Center web pages, wikis, and online forum (next-generation
implementations of our existing small efforts in this direction) will be another high-impact and challenging
administrative element. As with the other Cores and the Projects, this Core will stand in part upon well-
established human and other resources, but will expand and diversify in fundamentally new directions under
the auspices of the P50 and of NIDA. Success of the Center ultimately will be measured in terms of the both the
science and the outreach; the Administrative Core is absolutely crucial for both. To achieve its stated goals in
the most efficient and cost-effective manner, the Center will require an Administrative Core that will provide
administrative support to all Center investigators and assist in the dissemination of reagents and findings
generated by the Center.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9962334
- **Project number:** 5P50DA042012-04
- **Recipient organization:** STANFORD UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Karl A. Deisseroth
- **Activity code:** P50 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $250,440
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → —

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9962334

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9962334, Admin Core (5P50DA042012-04). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9962334. Licensed CC0.

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