Superfund Research Program

Administrative Core

Project Leader: Norbert E. Kaminski
Grant Number: P42ES004911
Funding Period: 1995-2021

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Final Progress Reports

Year:   2012  2004 

The Administrative Core continues to provide support for the research and outreach activity of this program. The Administrative Core is located in the offices for the Center for Integrative Toxicology at Michigan State University and is responsible for coordinating campus-wide activities in environmental toxicology. The Center for Integrative Toxicology offices are located in the Food Safety and Toxicology Building on the campus of Michigan State University. The Food Safety and Toxicology Building houses a significant number of Superfund Investigators including the PI (Norbert Kaminski) as well as a number of Project and Core Leaders (Norbert Kaminski, Patti Ganey, John LaPres, Timothy Zacharewski, Brad Upham and James Trosko). In addition, other key personnel including Project Leader, James Tiedje, and Core Leader, Stephen Boyd, are housed in a building directly adjacent to the Food Safety and Toxicology Building. The location of the CIT offices provides convenient access to Superfund Investigators as well as the broader Michigan State University toxicology community.

The Core organizes and supports regularly scheduled meetings and telephone-conferences for exchange of research and administrative information. It exercises fiscal responsibility for the research effort. The Core encourages and supports communication within the research teams supported by the grant and acts as an interface to administrators at the NIEHS/NIH. Meetings of the investigators supported by the grant have occurred on a regular basis this year. The major activities for the Administrative core during the current year of funding was focused on assisting and facilitating preparation of the competing renewal application. This included but was not limited to scheduling of monthly video conferencing planning meetings for program investigators, three face-to-face planning meetings of the MSU Superfund Program Investigators, material collection and overall preparation of the renewal application.