# Core A: Administrative Core

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · 2020 · $403,134

## Abstract

Abstract
The key functions of the Administrative Core (AC) are to maximize the local, statewide and national impact of
initiatives developed and implemented by the Michigan ADCC, enhance collaborations with the NACC and
outside investigators, and provide sound oversight for fiscal and personnel matters within the ADCC. Over the
past four years, the AC’s leadership has successfully developed an effective ADC-like infrastructure and
established partnerships across the three universities comprising the ADCC (University of Michigan, Michigan
State University and Wayne State University). This extensive preliminary organization ensures that the
Michigan ADCC will be exceptionally well-positioned, when funded, to achieve its overall research, training and
outreach objectives and become a premier resource for dementia-related academic activities in a region of the
country currently lacking an NIA-supported AD Center (ADC). Continued strong guidance from the AC will
ensure that the activities of the five other Cores maintain synergy and connection to the Michigan ADCC’s
central theme: To identify, understand and modulate the non-β amyloid factors contributing to brain dysfunction
and degeneration in AD and related dementias. To accomplish this, the AC proposes five Specific Aims: 1)
leverage expert dementia resources and skills focused in each Core; 2) maintain cohesive interplay across the
cores; 3) build and sustain local and regional partnerships; 4) build and sustain national partnerships; and 5)
foster new research and training opportunities across the three participating universities. To realize these
Aims, the AC will provide a well-communicated strategic plan and sound administrative guidance in budgetary
and personnel issues in order to guarantee cohesion and productivity across all Cores. The AC also will
receive counsel from three advisory committees (the Internal and External Advisory Boards and a Community
Advisory Board), will interact closely with local Alzheimer’s Association chapters and related disease advocacy
groups to enhance participant recruitment and outreach efforts, and will coordinate activities across the three
participating universities. Finally, the AC will coordinate Michigan ADCC activities closely with the NIA and the
NACC and will oversee interactions with investigators in other ADCs and investigators outside the ADC
network to develop new research partnerships. Benefitting from 1) strong institutional support from all three
participating universities, 2) recent philanthropic success that will enable the AC to leverage private funds for
ADCC activities, 3) closely coordinated interactions with the UM Claude Pepper and UM/WSU Michigan Center
for Urban African American Aging Research, and 4) shared administrative leadership with UM’s new Protein
Folding Diseases Initiative and the Udall Center of Excellence for Parkinson’s Disease Research, the AC is
well-positioned to implement all the activities of the Michigan ADCC. Give...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9980245
- **Project number:** 5P30AG053760-05
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
- **Principal Investigator:** Henry L Paulson
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $403,134
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → 2022-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9980245

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9980245, Core A: Administrative Core (5P30AG053760-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9980245. Licensed CC0.

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