Shared Research Resources: Best Practices in Management and Administration

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Andrew Vinard assumed the role of Director of Centralized Core Facilities at UMass Amherst in October 2016. He is responsible for the strategic administrative and fiscal leadership of 30 centralized core facilities managed by the Institute for Applied Life Sciences. Andrew works closely with individual Core Facility directors and advisory committees to ensure maximal use of existing resources. He serves as the liaison to Umasss central offices including HR EH&S Compliance and Finance. Andrew also facilitates use of the Core Facilities for internal and external customers by coordination of contracting and promotion throughout the Umass community and region. Prior to joining Umass Amherst Andrew worked for 10 years at the University of Miami first with the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center as manager of Facilities and Shared Resources; then as the Director of Biotechnology Resources providing support to 60 core facilities across the institution; and finally as the Coulter Program Director where he worked closely with researchers to identify projects that could be converted from benchtop research to commercializeable technology by identifying resources funding and partners to aid in the translational process. Andrew received his BA in Environmental Planning and Masters of Public Administration from the University of Miami FL. Julie has more than 35 year of expertise in the operation and administration of multi-technology multi-disciplinary academic research core facilities. Her specific technology and scientific background is in flow cytometry and immunology and has also directed monoclonal antibody production and immunohistochemistry cores. She has been responsible for the development of central administrative programs focused on cores at the University of Chicago (Office of Shared Research Facilities) UC San Francisco (Research Resource Program) and UC Davis where she currently serves as the Executive Director of the Research Core Facilities Program in the campus Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research. As a recognized expert in this field she has served as an external reviewer and external advisory board member for many academic core programs including participating in the development of the NIH Office of Research Infrastructure Programs 2021-2025 Strategic Plan. Dr. Joshua Z. Rappoport received a bachelors degree in Biology from Brown University and then went on to earn a Ph.D. from the Program in Mechanisms of Disease and Therapeutics at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine Graduate School of Biological Sciences of New York University. Dr. Rappoport then went on to perform postdoctoral work at The Rockefeller University in New York City in the Laboratory of Cellular Biophysics. Subsequently he was recruited as a faculty member in the School of Biosciences at the University of Birmingham in England where his responsibilities included management of the schools microscopy core facility. In 2014 Dr. Rappoport returned to the United States to serve as the Director of the Center for Advanced Microscopy and Nikon Imaging Center at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and as a faculty member in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology. As of March 1st 2019 Dr. Rappoport is the Executive Director Research Infrastructure & Operations. This position in the office of the Vice-Provost for Research focuses upon expanding and improving the shared research resources available to BC faculty such as core facilities and recharge centers.