The Administrative Core oversees day to day functioning as the backbone of the Neurobiology of AddictionResearch Center (NARC). This core provides an administrative structure, an organizational framework, anda plan to insure integration of the various components of the Center. The primary goal of the AdministrativeCore is to orchestrate the projects to maximize efficiency and savings, provide a forum for the exchange andmutual comparison of data, as well as orchestrate mentoring activities in the field of addiction at the MedicalUniversity of South Carolina. Specific goals are outlined below.1. Provide a forum for integrating ideas, experimental designs and research findings between the projects.2. Working with Pilot Core C to mentor junior faculty by expanding opportunities in addiction research.3. Contribute to seminars and journal clubs for pre- and postdoctoral fellows, as well as to promotecommunity outreach to disseminate the latest findings in addiction research and to provide researchexperience to university undergraduates.4. Provide access to assistance in statistical evaluation of data generated by the NARC.5. Provide the financial infrastructure to assist in hiring personnel, purchasing supplies and equipment,and to meet publication costs.6. Provide a mechanism for constant internal evaluation of NARC progress, and to establish and arrangefor visits from an External Advisory Board.7. Contribute monies for Principal Investigators to present data generated by the NARC at nationalmeetings.8. Provide for data sharing, including maintaining NARC server for data storage and NARC website forpublic dissemination of NARC discoveries
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