Overhead rates: Was: Re: The Fleecing of America by Biomedical Research Administration

[Arthur E. Sowers]

On 23 Mar 1996, glover martin wrote:

> Michael S. Straka (mike.straka at uchsc.edu) wrote:
> : On 20 Mar 96, Troy Shinbrot <shinbrot at nwu1.edu> wrote:
> 
> 
> : BTW, I'd be interested to hear about overhead rates at other 
> : institutions.  Here (University of Colorado Health Sciences Center,
> : Denver) it is 51.1%.  Anybody care to go for the record?
> 
> I believe here at Harvard the rate is 70%.
> 
> Trei

This is all chickenfeed. I know one private biomedical research institute 
where the overhead is about 105% or more. And, at some of the so called 
"beltway bandits" around the beltway (otherwise known as rout 495 around 
Washington, D.C.) it is at least 150%.  Most of the universities are 
around 50% to 70-80%.

Art Sowers


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