Michael Alcorn

Mike Alcorn has over 35 years of extensive upper management experience in supporting most all aspects of grant and commercial biomedical and clinical research administration. A short listing is Clinical Trials contracting, Overall Departmental Finance & Accounting (including federal grant accounting), Regulatory Support of Research, Research Budget Development, Material Transfers, Patent Filings, federal grant program administration, and Investigator Relationships. Prior to joining SCLRC, Mike was the Senior Director, Translational Medicine and Clinical Research with Scripps Health (SH) and affiliated with the Scripps Research Institute’s (TSRI). As the Senior Director, Mike was responsible for managing the organization’s research fiscal revenue/expense and budgeting, grant preparations, personnel, and physician-investigator interactions supporting TSRI’s NIH CTSA UL1 program operations and was instrumental with the PMI U54 ”All of US” grant application development and submission. Mike has functioned as the federal eRA Commons administrator, the Grants.Gov Authorized Organizational Representative (AOR), an alternate Signing Official (SO), and the eBusiness Point of Contact (ePOC) under the federal System Award Management (SAM) program managing pre- and post-award grants, operational compliance with federal audit requirements, applicable components of the NIH Funding Guidelines, and reviewing for accuracy its periodic DHHS indirect cost rate data.