The cost of animal research.
The US biomedical research community has long debated how to bill different types of animal research costs. Specifically, which aspects of animal research should be charged as direct costs, and which should be charged as indirect (or facilities and administrative) costs? In this paper, the author describes why the community has yet to clearly define what constitutes indirect costs. He then suggests how researchers, administrators and government officials can categorize different aspects of animal research as direct or indirect costs.
Department of Comparative Medicine, College of Medicine, The Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA, USA. cmlang1937@yahoo.com
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D000818:Animals; D000830:Animals, Laboratory; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000191:economics*; D003361:Cost Allocation; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D012109:Research Support as Topic