Peter:

I don't think we can be spending time worrying about other institution's faculty
T&E issues.  We have enough trouble keeping track of our own.  A consultant who
is otherwise employed works on their own time.  It isn't part of a regular
compensation package, unless that regular compensation package takes into
consideration consultations either with patients or other entities.  The
consultant would be responsible for providing their own insurance, pay taxes,
etc.  If that consultant is going to attempt to use her own university's labs
and materials, I would notify their grants administrators.  I'm sure they'd have
a thing or two to say about that.

I would be interested in hearing other opinions on this.

Greg Schmidt

"Dolce, Peter J" wrote:

> One of our PIs wants to engage a faculty member at another school as a
> collaborator.  That faculty member already has 90% of her effort committed
> to grant-funded projects, and the remaining 10% is not sufficient to make
> the proposed collaboration convincing to the proposed sponsor.  The solution
> proposed by the two investigators is list the collaborator as a consultant
> for ~$20,000.
>
> Is it a common practice to use the consulting mechanism to engage
> collaborators whose is effort fully committed to other projects?
>
> Peter J. Dolce, Ph.D., Director
> Office of Research Support Services
> Meharry Medical College
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