# Administrative Core

> **NIH NIH P50** · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · 2020 · $279,978

## Abstract

ADMINISTRATIVE CORE: Abstract/Summary
The Administrative Core (AC) will provide all of the administrative and budgetary support to the MD Anderson
Cancer Center Cancer SPORE in Gastrointestinal Cancers PIs and investigators, and form the central “hub” for
productive interactions within the SPORE community. It is co-directed by Drs. Scott Kopetz and Anirban Maitra,
and supported by a research program manager, Dr. David Menter, an experienced multi-investigator grant
administrator and investigator. Both, Dr Kopetz and Dr. Maitra have experience in overseeing multi-investigator
grants that include Institutional Grants, Cancer Center Core Grant Programs, and Stand Up to Cancer Grants.
The overall goal of the AC will be coordination and monitoring of 3 Projects, 2 additional Cores, as well as the
Developmental Research (DRP) and Career Enhancement (CEP) Programs. The AC is designed to monitor
research activity and provide stable and continuous leadership and direction that advances integration,
communication, and collaboration among GI SPORE investigators within MD Anderson and among extramural
institutions, in particular, our partner institution, Johns Hopkins University (JHU). The AC will leverage the wide-
ranging scientific, research, and SPORE-related experience of both Internal and External Advisory Boards in
critical decision-making steps. The AC will ensure fiscal management, including personnel, budgets, and effort
oversight, facilitate communication, interfacing with patient advocates, organization of meetings, manuscript
preparation, and progress and other reports to the NCI and GI SPORE committees, and cross-communication
of Cores and Programs. Of paramount importance is to ensure timely communication and consultation with the
NCI Translational Research Program Director and staff for both adherence and deviations from stated
programmatic goals. This Core is to also monitor scientific integrity and overall compliance with all institutional,
state, federal, and NCI regulations and requirements, as well as quality assurance for data integrity including a
change in the data integration plan with utilization of the new institutional clinical trial management system
(CTMS) in lieu of Redcap, which provides greater data linkage residing in the Biospecimen and Pathology
Core (Core 1) and Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Core (Core 2). The AC will be responsible for oversight of
DRP and CEP for completion of deliverables. The AC also facilitates routine convening of staff and management
of all necessary meetings. The AC will also enhanced awareness of colorectal and pancreatic cancer research
and patient advocacy in the community as well as ongoing needs of minority and underserved communities in
Houston and Harris County catchment area. This core will also help leverage and facilitate translational GI
cancer research efforts being conducted by extramural groups locally and in the US and globally through both
horizontal and vertical collaborations ...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9999480
- **Project number:** 5P50CA221707-02
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR
- **Principal Investigator:** Scott Kopetz
- **Activity code:** P50 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $279,978
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2019-08-20 → 2024-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9999480

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9999480, Administrative Core (5P50CA221707-02). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9999480. Licensed CC0.

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