172.803. Award of funds, requirements.

MISSOURI STATUTES AND CODES

172.803. Award of funds, requirements.

Award of funds, requirements.

172.803. 1. The board of curators, with the recommendations of theadvisory board, shall award funds to selected investigators in accordancewith the following provisions:

(1) Individual awards shall not exceed thirty thousand dollars peryear and shall expire at the end of one or two years, depending on therecommendation of the advisory board for each award;

(2) Costs for overhead of the grantee individual or institution shallnot be allowed;

(3) Investigators shall be employees or staff members of public orprivate educational, health care, voluntary health association or researchinstitutions which shall specify the institutional official responsible foradministration of the award;

(4) Subject to the provisions of subsection 3 of section 172.801,preference shall be given to investigators new to the field of Alzheimer'sdisease and related disorders and to those experienced in the field butdeparting in a research direction different from their previous work.Lesser preference shall be given to proposals to sustain meritoriousresearch in progress;

(5) Awards shall be used to obtain preliminary data to testhypotheses and to enable investigators to develop subsequent competitiveapplications for long-term funding from other sources; and

(6) The research project shall be conducted in Missouri.

2. Funds appropriated for but not awarded to research projects in anygiven year shall be included in the board of curators' appropriationsrequest for research projects in the succeeding year.