The Life Sciences Recent Progress and Application to Human Affairs The World of Biological Research Requirements for the Future (1970) / Chapter Skim
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Financing Academic Research in Life Sciences
Financing Academic Research in Life Sciences
Pages 316-331
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FINANCING ACADEMIC RESEARCH IN THE LIFE SCIENCES The department chairmen reported a total of $304,000,000 in support of the direct costs of research in 1966-1967, of which $253,000,000 was derived from federal sources. These figures should be related to the reported total of $2,264,000,000 *
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Source: Survey of Academic Life Science Departments, National Academy of Sciences Committee on Research in the Life Sciences. public universities.
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Source: Survey of Academic Life Science Departments. National Academy of Sciences Committee on Research in the Life Sciences.
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Whereas in the early history of federal researchgrant programs investigators had great latitude in the disposition of the funds made available to them, as among the various categories of expenditure, investigators are increasingly expected to manage research funds within the various budget categories negotiated at the time of award. We have no fault to find with this practice as long as agency administrators remain flexible in granting permission to transfer funds between categories when this can be justified by the course of research in progress, unanticipated needs, and related factors.
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of all individuals received part or all of their salaries from federal sources, and 42 percent received salaries from more than one source, usually distributed between the institutional budget and some federal source. Of those whose entire incomes derived from federal funds, 58 percent were supported by research grants or contracts, 23 percent by training grants, 10 percent by institutional grants, and 19 percent through one of several advanced fellowship programs, e.g., senior postdoctoral fellowships from several agencies and the Career Awards of the National Institutes of Health.
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Degree Only 50.8 24.0 7.9 3.1 7.1 Other Health-Professional Degree 69.0 15.7 3.0 4.0 3.0 a Not originally in a life science, e.g., physics, chemistry, or sociology. Source: Survey of Individual Life Scientists, National Academy of Sciences Committee on Research in the Life Sciences.
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Source: Survey of Individual Life Scientists, National Academy of Sciences Committee on Research in the Life Sciences. field and the inadequacy of their support from institutional funds.
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Source: Survey of Academic Life Science Departments, National Academy of Sciences Committee on Research in the Life Sciences. cent of their support from institutional sources, the preclinical departments received only 57 percent and the clinical departments only 43 percent of faculty salaries from internal sources.
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If we assume a mean faculty salary for all three ranks of $16,000 per annum, total payments for faculty salaries from federal funds appropriated in support of research and research training must have been well in excess of $80 million per annum, a figure that should be compared with such items of nationally aggregated medical school income in 1967-1968 as: tuition and fees, $48 million; indirect costs on all federal grants and contracts, $74 million; endowment income, $30 million; and state appropriations, $143 million. Since the faculty so supported performs in the manner normal to such faculties and distributes its time much as do those whose salaries derive entirely from institutional sources, federal support of medical schools through the agencies of research and training grants patently has become a very significant part of the financial structure of the national medical edu
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The equitable geographic distribution of federal funds in support of research and graduate and postdoctoral education is a matter of perennial public and congressional concern. An attempt to assess this situation is summarized in Tables 45 through 48, which compare the distribution of the American population, by major census regions, with the distribution of federal research support, life sciences faculties, Ph.D.
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