Core A, the Administrative Core, will continue to provide organizational support for the leadership of theSPORE, facilitate communication among the component activities of the SPORE, serve as the home forpancreatic cancer SPORE advocate activities, and provide an organizational portal for collaborationsoutside the SPORE. Core A's functions are to: 1) Provide leadership and coordination between theResearch Projects and Cores of the SPORE; 2) Assure ongoing integration and participation of thePancreatic Cancer SPORE in the activities of Mayo Clinic Cancer Center; 3) Organize monthly meetingsof the SPORE investigators; 4) Organize yearly research retreats and meetings of the External AdvisoryCommittee; 5) Organize meetings of the SPORE Scientific Advisory Committee as needed; 6) Organizemonthly meetings of the SPORE Steering Committee; 7) Provide administrative support to theDevelopmental Research Program; 8) Provide administrative support to the Career DevelopmentProgram; 9) Facilitate investigator trips to the annual SPORE meetings in the mid-Atlantic region; 10)Facilitate activities of the pancreatic cancer SPORE advocates; 11) Prepare the yearly non-competingSPORE application; 12) Serve as the administrative liaison between the Mayo Clinic SPORE and the NCISPORE Program, other SPOREs, and collateral resources, such as PACGENE, PANC4, PanCAN, thePhase II Consortium, and the North Central Cancer Treatment Group; 13) Maintain the Mayo PancreaticCancer SPORE websites that will be useful to investigators inside and outside the SPORE, as well aspatients; 14) Coordinate information and communication about SPORE-related research developments toand among the Mayo Clinic SPORE investigators, to the scientific community at large, and to the public.The Core leader, Dr. Petersen, will continue to direct Core A in close consultation with the SteeringCommittee so that maximum potential for translational objectives can continue to be achieved.
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