The Administrative/Program Enrichment Core (PEC) provides the administrative and regulatory support necessary to foster and promote transformative research in geroscience. The PEC oversees the comprehensive research platform within the Center that includes Cores targeted to assess longevity and functional aging, integrated metabolic physiology. Moreover, it will play a significant role in fostering career development and disseminating the findings from our Center, and others, to the public. The PEC also directs continuous internal and periodic external evaluations of the San Antonio Nathan Shock Center to continually improve services, to ensure appropriate allocation of resources, to assist with the success of investigator-driven studies and to listen and respond to potential room for needs and growth requested by users. The PEC employs a multipronged approach to catalyze fulfillment of the San Antonio Nathan Shock Center goals.
How the PEC can assist investigators:
Fostering an environment to support geroscience
- Support for the Annual Masoro-Barshop Conference on Aging
- Support for Barshop Seminar Series on Aging
- Community Engagement
- Commitment to training including support for trainees
Facilitating interactions and development in geroscience
- Mini-sabbaticals and internships partnering with RD Core
- Mentor matching
- Partnership with the Nathan Shock Center Coordinating Center
Biostatistical support
- Partnering with investigators for study design, analyses and development of new statistical approaches.
- Matching biostatistical support with all NSC-supported projects.
- Coordination with NSC Research Cores for integrative statistical analyses.

Core Leaders

Center Director and Core Leader: Randy Strong, PhD

Center Co-Director and Co-Core Leader: Adam Salmon, PhD

Center Statistician: Jonathan Gelfond, MD, PhD