Hopkins Conte Digestive Diseases Basic and Translational Research Core Center is an NIH/NIDDK funded, institutionally supported center that has as its mission, to make gastrointestinal studies at Hopkins as outstanding as possible, by encouraging helping develop interactions between Hopkins basic and translational investigators.
The Center consists of an Administrative Core, four scientific Cores, an Enrichment Program, a Pilot and Feasibility Project Program and services a Research Base of ~60 Hopkins faculty investigators.
LEADERSHIP
Co-Director, Mark Donowitz, M.D., LeBoff Professor of Medicine and Physiology, Director of Hopkins Center for Epithelial Disorders,
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Co-Director, Svetlana Lutsenko, Ph.D., Professor of Physiology and Medicine, Associate Director for Basic Science and Clinical Relations of the Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Associate Director, Jay Pasricha, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Neurosciences, Director of Johns Hopkins Center for Neurogastroenterology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Associate Director, Cindy Sears, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Oncology, and Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
SCIENTIFIC CORES
The GI Core Center supports four scientific cores: Proteomics Core, Imaging Core, Integrated Physiology Core, and Translational Research Enhancement Core.
Research Base and Focus Groups
The GI Core Center has 61 investigators – 44 full members and 17 associate members. These investigators currently have ~$25,000,000 in extramural funding related to digestive diseases, ~35% of which is NIH/NIDDK funding. The Core Center investigators carry out research in 3 Focus Groups: Epithelial Biology and Trafficking, Neurogastroenterology, Chronic GI Inflammation.
ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS
The Core Center Enrichment Programs consists of
a) Weekly Work-In-Progress.
b) Annual Hofmann and Family Lecture and Day of Science
c) Annual single topic conference on a theme emphasized in one of the Focus Groups
d) Research Base Retreat
e) Workshops related to Core Services
f) Mini-sabbatical program
PILOT AND FEASIBILITY PROGRAM
The Hopkins GI Core Center Pilot and Feasibility Program supports innovative studies in normal GI physiology or GI diseases with emphasis on the support of young investigators. $100,000-$125,000 are awarded yearly with the usual grant $25,000 with the larger awards for collaborative grants in which there is an important mentoring component of a young investigator by an established investigator.
All Core Center Members must acknowledge support by the Core Center in publications and grant applications, as follows: “Please acknowledge the contribution of our P30 the Hopkins Conte GI Center for Basic and Translational Digestive Disorders Research in all publications that have used Core Center services.”
In addition, if the FluoView3000 confocal microscope is used, please acknowledge grant S10 OD025244 (this is the NIH/NIDDK SIG that funded this purchase).