Research Service Cores

The oversight of IU School of Medicine centralized research cores ultimately lies with the Executive Associate Dean for Research. The cores also have additional oversight committees that play an important role in their success:

• Operation Committee (OC)
• Institutional Research Oversight Committee (IROC)
• IU School of Medicine Core Services

Executive Associate Dean for Research (EADR)

The EADR oversees IU School of Medicine's research endeavors by administering research funding, building relationships with corporations and foundations, ensuring research integrity, overseeing human and animal research, and providing operational support to the research core facilities.

Cores Operation Committee (OC)

The Operation Committee reviews, monitors, and supports the centralized core operational performance and provides core and core leaders with policy and regulatory information, ensuring shared learning while improving accountability and transparency.

IU School of Medicine Core Services

Director:

The director of core services is responsible for managing the strategic, administrative, marketing, and business affairs of the centralized core facilities at IU School of Medicine. They provide strategic and operational leadership to core facility managers/technical directors/technical staff to ensure the efficient day-to-day operations of individual core facilities. They work with each of the core facility faculty advisory committees that regularly review operations, rates, advise on issues, and contribute to strategic planning, updating business plans and financial plans for each core.

Operational Infrastructure:

IU School of Medicine Core Services assist core facilities with a range of operational needs. The team processes applications for new services, equipment purchases, or new core formation; designs surveys for new service and equipment assessment; create customer satisfaction surveys, which provide valuable feedback to core directors and the IROC on core efficiency; and reviews and implements management systems that may be useful tools to increase core efficiency.

Core Visibility:

IU School of Medicine Core Services strives to increase awareness and usage of core facilities by developing promotional materials and maintaining the IU School of Medicine core website.

Education and Training:

IU School of Medicine Core Services organizes and assists with educational workshops and forums which focus on introducing core users to new technologies.

Advocacy:

IU School of Medicine Core Services engage in a continuing conversation with the IROC and the EADR to develop, disseminate, and implement policies and guidelines affecting core facilities.

The Research Administration and Finance Team (RAFT), within the IU School of Medicine Executive Associate Dean for Research Affairs (EADR) and the Executive Associate Dean for Finance and Administration offices, serves as the primary contact regarding business and administrative operations of the centralized cores. The RAFT provides administrative support for the business operations of the centralized cores, including, but not limited to:

• Budget
  With input from the core, construct an annual operating budget within the guidelines established by the University Budget Office and the IU School of Medicine Dean's Office Financial Analysis & Budget unit. The core's operating budget will be monitored throughout the year, and budget adjustments will be completed as needed. Any significant changes in the core's annual operating budget will be reviewed by the IROC and the EADR.
• Rates
  Work with the core to ensure the core is compliant with all Office of the University Controller Auxiliary Accounting policies. Rates will be reviewed annually and calculated and submitted by the Dean's Office to the Office of the University Controller annually or biannually, as required by university policy.
• Business Operations
  Provide support as needed for all business operations and administrative duties for centralized cores, including but not limited to purchasing, accounts payable, travel, accounts receivable, HRMS document management, and core billing and invoicing.
• Reporting
  Provide monthly financial and activity reports to the core and school leadership, as well as other reports required or requested by the university, the EADR, the IROC, the OC, or core leadership.

Financial support for centralized cores is provided by the Dean's Office, at the discretion of EADR, for the following:

• Ongoing operations
  Operating deficits for centralized cores are subsidized by the Dean's Office. Core subsidies are budgeted annually and are reviewed on an ongoing basis.
• Staffing changes or significant changes in operating expenses
  Funding for staffing changes or significant changes in operating expenses not fully covered by revenue increases will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.
• Equipment
  Funding requests for equipment purchases are reviewed on a case-by-case basis. The Dean's Office will work with the core to identify funding opportunities for approved equipment purchases.

Yunlong Liu (IROC chair) — Professor of Medical and Molecular Genetics; Associate Dean of Translational Resources, Director, Center for Computational Biology & Bioinformatics. Director, Center for Medical Genomics, IU School of Medicine

Bruce T. Lamb, PhD — Executive Director, Stark Neurosciences Research Institute, IU School of Medicine

Brian Pierchala, PhD — Professor of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Physiology, IU School of Medicine

Lynda F. Bonewald, PhD — Founding Director, Indiana Center for Musculoskeletal Health, IU School of Medicine

Reuben Kapur, PhD — Director, Herman B Wells Center for Pediatric Research; Professor of Pediatrics, IU School of Medicine

Robert Considine, PhD — Professor of Medicine, Director of Indiana CTSI Access Technology Program

Melissa Kacana, PhD — Vice Chair for Research and Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, IU School of Medicine

Rob Dimmitt, MBA — Senior Director, Research Administration and Finance, IU School of Medicine 

Yunlong Liu, PhD — Professor of Medical and Molecular Genetics; Director, Center for Medical Genomics, IU School of Medicine

Alain Waffo, PhD — Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Director, Chemical Genomics Core, IU School of Medicine

Lifan Zeng, PhD — Director of Chemistry and Informatics, Chemical Genomics Core Facility

Ratan Rai, PhD — Director of High-Throughput Screening, Chemical Genomics Core Facility

Amber Mosley, PhD — Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Director, Center for Proteome Analysis, IU School of Medicine

Katherine Fischer, PhD — Assistant Research Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology; Director, Behavioral Phenotyping Core, IU School of Medicine

Maks Luthra, MPH — Director of Research Operations, Centralized Cores, IU School of Medicine

Mandy Bittner, MSc — Core Administrator, IU School of Medicine

Quyen Hoang, MD, PhD — Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Director, Center for Electron Microscopy, IU School of Medicine 

Padma Portonovo, PhD, MBA — Co-Director, Collaborative Metabolome Core, IU School of Medicine

Gang Peng, PhD — Co-Director, Collaborative Metabolome Core, IU School of Medicine

Rob Dimmitt, MBA — Senior Director, Research Administration and Finance, IU School of Medicine

Courtney Linville, CRA — Associate Director of Finance, IU School of Medicine

Lane Mahurin, BSc in Finance — Senior Finance Manager, IU School of Medicine

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