Administrative Core

The Johns Hopkins University DELTA Center (Delivery of Early Liver Transplant for Alcoholic Hepatitis) provides focused and multidisciplinary care to patients with Alcoholic Hepatitis and rigorously studies these efforts to advance the treatment of this challenging patient population. The P50 Specialized Alcohol Research Center (SPARC) funding supports four highly interconnected and integrated research projects together with an Administrative Core (Admin Core) and a Pathology resource Core (Path Core). The broad goal of this P50 renewal proposal is to continue to characterize our novel patient cohort on several different levels and offer this information to the national alcohol research community. In support of this effort, the Admin core will work with finance managers from the departments of Surgery, Medicine, Pharmacology and Pathology to set up and manage budgets for each project or core and provide project leaders with regular financial reports. In addition, the Core will assist investigators in preparation of manuscripts and competing and non‐competing grant renewals, as well as processing of resource sharing requests. The Admin Core will collaborate with individual Project Leaders to help identify and train the next generation of clinical and research leaders for alcoholic hepatitis. Importantly, the Admin Core will meet regularly with other project leaders to ensure that all projects comply with IRB, ACUC and other regulatory standards including the ethical conduct of research. Finally, the Admin Core will coordinate and provide logistical support for monthly program steering meetings, for invited seminar speakers and for the annual program retreat and advisory board meeting. The Admin Core will also continue to organize forums for interaction between our Center and other NIAAA funded alcohol research program including through future iterations of the Johns Hopkins DELTA Center for Alcohol Research Symposium on Alcoholic Hepatitis.