The Administrative Core will continue to function as the chief administrative unit of this Superfund BasicResearch Program. In this capacity, the Administrative Core is responsile for the supervision, coordination,guidance and financial accountability of this entire Superfund Basic Research Program. Together with theP.I., the Director and the Associate Director of this Core are ultimately responsible to NIEHS.The goals of the Core are: 1) to provide leadership to facilitate interactions and communication amonginvestigators both at formal (e.g. meetings and seminars) and informal levels, 2) to foster interactions amongResearch Projects, Research Support Cores, the Training Core and the Research Translation Core, and tofacilitate dissemination of information across these units and to the outside world, both domestically andabroad, 3) to supervise the utilization of the Research Support Core Facilities, 4) to coordinate the reviews ofSBRP activities by a nine-member External Advisory Committee, 5) to coordinate SBRP activities, includingseminars, retreats, symposia, and the preparation of the annual progress reports, and 6) to manage theProgram's budget.The Administrative Core will continue to handle all financial aspects of this SBRP and the componentprojects. The Administrative Core and the SBRP at large have been fortunate to be strongly supported byInstitutional Support from the Mailman School of Public Health (MSPH) and from the Columbia Earth Institute(CEI). In addition to providing salaries for our Administrative Coordinator and Bangladesh Project Director,they have provided 75% of funds for the purchase of an ICP-MS-DRC (MSPH), and 50% of funds for HRICP-MS (CEI), and for pilot studies in Bangladesh. This Institutional Support will continue into the newfunding cycle.As in the past, the Administrative Core will work with investigators to develop new pilot projects. In thepast, some of this pilot work has translated into independent RO1 grant support for ancillary projects thathave allowed our Program to be exponentially greater than the sum of its parts. In addition, continued inputfrom our Advisory Board will ensure that all research conducted as part of this SBRP is timely, focused,relevant and highly integrated.
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