Core Director: Leland W. K. Chung, Ph.D.

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Core A Administrative and Biostatistical Support
Core

• Core Director Leland W. K. Chung, Ph.D.
• Core Co-Director John A. Petros, M.D.
• Core Co-Investigators Jae Lee, Ph.D. Robert
  Lyles, Ph.D.
• Core Coordinator Kristin Gunderson

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Program Organization
External Advisors Valerie Culotta Theresa Guise
Wallace L. McKeehan Sam Parthasarathy Marti
n Schwartz Alphonse E. Sirica
Henry Sun
Internal Advisors Cynthia Cohen Fray Marshall
Barry Shur Jonathan Simons
Executive Committee Chung Petros
Farach-Carson Dong Martin
Zayzafoon
Core A Administrative Biostatistical Support
Core Co-Investigator Jae Lee/Bob
Lyles Coordinator Kristin Gunderson
Core Director L. W. K. Chung
Core Co-Director J. Petros
Core B - Martin
Core C - Zayzafoon
Project 1 - Chung
Project 4- Dong
Project 2 Farach-Carson
Project 3- Petros
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Core Objectives

• Support Projects and Cores
• Facilitate communication and achieve synergism
• Create an interactive environment
• Provide biostatistical support

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Significance

• The administrative management and support will
  ensure that excellent progress is made and will
  keep the synergy between the investigators moving
  and will ensure that exciting results and
  discoveries are made.

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Specific Aims

• Aim 1 To Organize Executive Committee, Internal
  Advisory Committee, External Advisory Committee
  and Scientific Meetings
• Aim 2 To communicate with the NCI Project
  Officer and staff and aid in preparing all
  internal and external progress reports and
  documents
• Aim 3 To organize a Administrative and
  Scientific Research Retreats
• Aim 4 To coordinate quality control and
  assurance of the services provided by the Cores,
  oversee expenditures, and maintain up-to-date
  budget information.
• Aim 5 To assist with preparation of P01
  publications
• Aim 6 To establish and maintain electronic
  communication and conduct regular audio-or
  web-conferencing among all Program Project
  Investigators and Core Directors.
• Aim 7 To establish and monitor policies for the
  recruitment of women and members of ethnic
  minority groups to this Program, to monitor for
  misconduct or fraud and to take responsibility
  for overall compliance with all government and
  NCI regulations and requirements
• Aim 8 To provide biostatistical and
  bioinformatics support, including experimental
  designs and data analysis, as described in the
  Aims of each research project and microarray and
  tissue array to seek for genes differentially
  expressed in the cell culture/animal models and
  in clinical specimens.

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Communication

• Web conferencing enables instant and live
  interactions among investigators
  (www.genesys.com).
• Secured website provides a forum for sharing
  scientific results, methods, concepts, current
  literature and upcoming scientific conferences
  (http//urology.emory.edu/mut/po1/po1main.cfm).

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Accessing Meeting Information
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Accessing Recent Presentations
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Communicating via Web and Teleconference
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Future Plans

• To continue to plan and facilitate all meetings
  associated with the Program Project
• To continue to manage and distribute all
  financial reports
• To continue to plan meetings to prepare for the
  October 2007 competitive renewal
• To facilitate plans to attend the third annual
  Joint Scientific Retreat meeting involving
  University of Washington and University of
  Michigan P01 investigators on March 29-30, 2007