The Administrative Core will perform three principal roles. First, it will provide an administrattive frameworkfor the Program. This will involve clerical and logistical support for the Projects and Cores in addition toproviding financial oversight. The Core will coordinate activities within the Program including the seminarseries, journal clubs, the annual scientific retreat, visits by members of advisory boards and collaboratingscientists. A scientific advisory board will oversee the scientific activities of the Program, including themanagement of the Pilot Project and Training Programs. The Core will asist, where possible, the ExecutiveComittee, composed of the Program and Core Directors. This committee will work with the Program'sDirector, Dr. Stephen Dalton, to manage overall activities, to make decisions regarding the Pilot Project andTraining programs and, to evaluate the overall direction and goals of the Program. Dr. Dalton will workclosely with the Core's Administrative Manager to ensure that the Program is coordinated and functionsefficiently.A second role of the Core, will be to administer the Pilot Project Program which will consist of three projects,to be funded annually with awards of $45,000/project. The Core will solicit applications from investigators inthe Southeast region with an objective to stimulate innovative hESC research in the region. The Program istargeted towards new investigtaors to the field. The Administrative Core will manage the selection andadministration of the Pilot Projects and will coordinate activities between awardees and other components ofthe Program.A third role for the Core will be to manage and promote interactions between the Program and theSoutheastern hESC community, including technology and reagent transfer, collaborative initiatives. TheCore will establish mechanisms to promote interactions with the Southeastern scientific community includingweb-based resources.
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