Administrative

Children's Hospital Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center

Administrative

Center URL: https://iddrc.org/
Core URL: http://http://www.iddrc.org/cores/administrative-core/

Core Personnel
Center Director: Scott Pomeroy, M.D., Ph.D
Center Director: Mustafa Sahin, MD, PhD
Administration: Sylvia Lewistein
Administration: Amy Weinberg

Core Description

Core URL: https://iddrc.org/overview/

The overall objective of the Administrative Core is to ensure that the Center operates to fulfill broad goals compatible with the mission of NICHD IDDRCs. The Core strives to link federally funded area investigators whose research is relevant to mental retardation and developmental disabilities. In addition, it facilitates multidisciplinary research and research training aids in the translation of basic research findings to clinical application.

The Administrative Core facilitates interaction among Center investigators and ensures that the research in genetics as well as basic and clinical/translational neuroscience retains direct relevance to intellectual and developmental disabilities. In addition to providing an infrastructure for the Center, the Core assists in the conduction of a seminar series, special lectures and meetings and ensures dissemination of scientific information emanating from this Center.

Services

Our lecture series and journal clubs play a particularly important role in increasing interactions among our scientists. In addition, the Core provides other administrative/managerial support functions, including:

Financial, technological, and other resource management
Assistance with budgets, bio-sketches and other support information
Assistance with compliance issues concerning NIH regulations regarding animal welfare and inclusion of women and minorities in human research
Communications and outreach
Seminar and event coordination and organization
Facilitation of input from family advisory groups