Administrative Coordinating Center

Welcome to the NHLBI PCTC Administrative Coordinating Center

The NHLBI Progenitor Cell Translational Consortium (PCTC) Administrative Coordinating Center has the operational areas: 1) to organize interactions and facilitate collaborations between PCTC investigators, 2) to oversee programs using set-aside funds to stimulate collaborative research and skills development, 3) to  share PCTC-generated data and reagents among PCTC investigators and with the research community, and 4) to facilitate access to expertise for preparation of U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) IND and IDE applications.

PCTC ACC is staffed by individuals who bring years of experience working along similar lines in the NHLBI Progenitor Cell Biology Consortium (PCBC) Administrative Coordinating Center (ACC); they have extensive experience in coordinating centers, organization and conduct of solicitation/review/ and award of proposals for research or skills development, FDA procedures for preparation of IND and IDE applications, collaborative research under cooperative agreements, consortium infrastructure, web site, communications, monitoring and documentation.

The PCTC ACC team at the University of Maryland, School of Medicine includes: project investigators: Michael L. Terrin (PI; project lead), Jennifer Albrecht (Co-PI), and Yuji Zhang (Bioinformatician) and project administrators: Andrea Lefever, Ling Tang, Tina Kramer (Communications Coordinators and website content); and Liz Betz (Finance Coordinator).

Please contact PCTC ACC regarding any Progenitor Cell Translational Consortium administrative services at alefever@som.umaryland.edu.