The key activities and functions of the Administrative core include:

• Oversight and coordination of administrative functions: The Admin core provides support for scheduling interdisciplinary forums for seminars and think-tanks, implementing the plan for developing crucial collaborations, implementing the communication strategy for Center exposure and the calls for proposals, developing and maintaining the resource bank, developing and maintaining the data bank, collecting data in real time (as it occurs, not retrospectively) of all activities of the Center, its members and junior investigators, implementing the evaluation activities, scheduling and facilitating one face to face meeting of the External Steering Committee and subsequent conference calls, scheduling and facilitating meetings of the Executive Committee, and scheduling and facilitating monthly review of the fiduciary responsibilities.
• Financial review and utilization: Every quarter, and as needed, the team meets with individual investigators to go over budget progress and utilization of funds as a mentoring activity for budget management.
• Optimize Shared Resources: The ACORE allocates shared resources based on availability and demand according to the strategic priorities developed and overseen by the Executive Committee (EC). Resource utilization and pending requests are reviewed at every EC meeting and decisions will be made as needed.
• Administrative structure for collaboration and regulatory support: Collaborations are maintained through web access, distribution lists, interdisciplinary meetings, and strong interdisciplinary participation through both the EC and EAC. As relationships mature, joint symposia will be planned to highlight particular synergies or novel applications of innovative methods by interdisciplinary teams that have completed work together.