IRCP partners with core directors and their teams to keep UAB's shared facilities sustainable, rigorous, and easy to use — providing business planning, quality assurance, financial oversight, and customer-focused service support so cores can stay focused on science.
How IRCP supports its cores
Business Planning
Sustainable operating models, rate development, and cost-recovery planning that keep each core financially viable year over year.
Quality Assurance
Standard operating procedures and QA/QC protocols that ensure reproducible, audit-ready results across every facility.
Customer-focused Service
Service standards, training, and onboarding that make cores approachable for first-time and expert users alike.
Financial Stability
Ongoing budget review, billing oversight, and rate management that protect each core's long-term financial health.
Resources
Core Day and Outreach
Present a poster at the annual Core & Shared Resource Day and connect with investigators across UAB.
Shared Instrumentation Grants
Support for NIH S10 and other shared-instrumentation proposals that place new equipment within a core.
Boilerplate Library
Standard institutional language, facilities and resources descriptions, and core text for grant proposals, maintained by the UAB Office of Research.
Program Oversight and Leadership
IRCP is administered through the UAB Office of Research. Core directors work with the IRCP faculty director and program staff on planning, compliance, and continuous improvement.
James Kobie, PhD
Director, IRCP
UAB Office of Research
Renuka Sangireddy, MBA
Financial Administrator
Core billing and rate management