I have just been appointed to the research and development committee at
my VA medical center.
We have about 3 million dollars a year in outside funding that goes
through our VA, and another 2-3 million that goes through a nearby
medical school (for which we get no indirect costs).  Our research
office (which handles IRB and accounting) has an annual budget of
300,000 and claims that they are seriously underfunded.

Does any one have a rule of thumb as to what is reasonable for funding
of research office support, as a percentage of grants received?

--

Thomas W. Findley MD, PhD
Clinical Director
Center for the Study of War Related Illness
VA Medical Center mailstop 127B
385 Tremont Ave, East Orange NJ 07018-1095
973-676-1000 x 2713 (phone) 973-395-7114 (fax)
xxxxxx@njneuromed.org

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