What is the rationale for the nearly 2-fold difference in budgets for the CDC and PCGC Centers?
The CDC and PCGC have different primary goals. Our expectation is that the CDC will have a data generating function and rapidly disseminate the data. The CDC budget reflects the cost of state-of-the-art technologies that will push the envelope to generate data not currently available to the scientific community. The PCGC will function to coordinate patient recruitment, and though each Center has a lower budget than CDC Centers, the PCGC has a larger number of Centers than the CDC. The budgets for the CDC and PCGC were developed based on the studies expected in each consortium and the resources required to conduct the studies. Additionally, PCGC resources will be leveraged by interaction with the PHN Cores, DCC, and biorepository.
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