Administration Core

The Administration Core provides leadership, infrastructure and resources to carry out the following specific aims.

• Raise awareness of and interest in research along the spectrum of diabetes T2-T4 translational research, with a particular emphasis on novel approaches to improve health outcomes and create an environment that supports such research.
• Support new and established investigators in developing, implementing, and evaluating evidence-based approaches to improving diabetes care and outcomes among communities, health care organizations, and individuals.
• Administer Cores that provide MCDTR members with services critical to T2-T4 translational research in diabetes, including addressing social and behavioral determinants of health, leveraging multiple strategies of providing self-management support, and rigorously designing, implementing, and evaluating evidence-based interventions and strategies.
• Provide enrichment programming that fosters interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral collaborations to develop and support early-stage and other researchers through education and training.
• Administer a Pilot and Feasibility Study Grants Program to attract new researchers to diabetes translational research that improves health outcomes and enables awardees to generate sufficient bodies of preliminary data to successfully apply for research funding from NIH and other national granting agencies. (Administration Core)
• Administer a cross-sectoral collaboration initiative that engages and pairs local and state partners with researchers aiming to improve fair access, care delivery, and health outcomes for people with and at risk for diabetes.
• Maintain the Center’s website.

The Administration Core is responsible for identifying and supporting researchers engaged in T2-T4 Diabetes translational research; for developing and implementing Cores to provide services to funded diabetes translational researchers locally, regionally, and nationally; for overseeing the allocation of Center resources; for providing an Enrichment Program; for implementing a process for solicitation, review, selection, monitoring, and follow-up of the Center’s Pilot and Feasibility Study Grants; for administering a cross sectoral collaborations initiative, and for developing and maintaining a website that integrates with the Caswell Diabetes Institute and the NIDDK Diabetes Centers websites.