This core will be responsible for managing the SPORE and disseminating information within the SPOREand for external interactions. The Core is designed for low-cost, yet efficient administration andcommunication in order to focus funds on research activities.The administrative component of the Core follows an organizational diagram for management activities.Monitoring of research will occur via 1) Research Project Teams, 2) Committee of Research ProjectInvestigators, 3) Core Investigators Committee, 4) Developmental Projects Program, 5) CareerDevelopment Committee, and 6) the central SPORE Steering Committee. An institutional Advisory Boardand External Advisory Board will provide yearly formal evaluations and reports to the Steering Committee.The communication component of the Core is directed at intra-SPORE, inter-SPORE, and National CancerInstitute research activities. The Core provides travel funds for Johns Hopkins Gl SPORE participation inthe NCI SPORE annual meetings, to include the SPORE Director/Pi, members of the Committee ofResearch Project Principal Investigators and other SPORE investigators. In addition, communication ofvalidated results to the medical community in order to impact on the incidence and mortality of colorectaland pancreatic cancer will occur via publication of SPORE findings in medical journals, occasional inter-institutional think tanks and organized public conferences through the Office of Continuing MedicalEducation of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, news releases to medical writers and pressconferences for announcement of vital advances through the Office of Public Affairs of The Johns HopkinsMedical Institutions, and when appropriate, alerts coordinated through the NCI program staff.
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