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Final Progress Reports: University of Kentucky: Administrative Core

Superfund Research Program

Administrative Core

Project Leader: Kelly G. Pennell
Grant Number: P42ES007380
Funding Period: 2000-2025
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Final Progress Reports

Year:   2019  2013  2007  2004 

The main objective of the Administrative Core is to serve as the focal point and center for communication for the University of Kentucky SBRP. The Administrative Core carries out the functions of planning and coordination, financial oversight, information dissemination and transfer, coordinate the function and visits of the External Advisory Board members and seminar speakers, and acts as liaison between Government and University officials and the SBRP. The Administrative Core includes a full-time Program Coordinator (Jennifer Moore), with Betty Newsom (College of Agriculture Grants Administrator) still overseeing fiscal activities. In addition to the University of Kentucky External Advisory Board (EAB), an Internal Advisory Board (IAB) is also  in place. The IAB provides advice about inter-disciplinary activities between the proposed SBRP and the entire academic institution, especially other centers, colleges, and departments, as well as central administration.

The Program Director organizes weekly seminars and meetings to provide opportunities for SBRP researchers to interact and optimize interdisciplinary collaborations. SBRP faculty and students meet regularly to discuss progress and listen to outside seminar speakers. Guidance and support is provided to graduate students that attend, in addition to present research data at national meetings, such as the annual SOT, Experimental Biology meetings, and the Annual SBRP Meeting. The University of Kentucky continues to be very supportive of UK SBRP research efforts, and supplemental funds were obtained to conduct an interdisciplinary pilot study among all projects to explore gene pattern changes affected by the interaction of nutritional intervention and exposure to PCB77.

Publications derived from a workshop on "Nutrition and Superfund Chemical Toxicity," which was organized and held at the University of Kentucky on November 18, 2005, appeared in two peer-review journal. A Commentary in Environ. Health Perspect. (115: 493-5, 2007) entitled "Using nutrition for intervention and prevention against environmental chemical toxicity and associated diseases" was a major highlight of our publications in 2007. Special seminars hosted by the UK-SBRP, which included speakers like Dr. Kevin Fritsche from the University of Missouri-Columbia and Dr. Surendra Sharma from the Brown University SBRP. As part of our research translation efforts, the Program Director attended several state, national and international conferences to present and to represent the UK-SBRP.

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