Allowable expenses include:
- Research/laboratory supplies
- Shared resource expenses
- Technical or research staff salaries (including fringe benefits)
- Student stipends (including fringe benefits where applicable)
- Participant Stipends (IRB approved)
- Animal costs
- Research related contractual agreements
- Software (prior approval required)
- Travel related expenses in the conduct of the research project (see below for nonallowable clarification)
- Meeting costs (e.g. research participant focus group) in the conduct of the research project
Non-allowable expenses include:
- Faculty salaries
- Equipment (including computers)
- Equipment maintenance and service contracts
- Secretarial/administrative salaries
- Graduate and undergraduate student tuition and student fees
- Textbooks/course books and periodicals
- Subscriptions to periodicals
- Membership dues
- Patient care costs
- Rental of office or laboratory space
- Recruitment and relocation expense
- Construction, renovation, or maintenance of buildings/laboratories
- Food costs associated with meetings or conferences held by investigative team
- Travel for conferences, symposia, lectures, etc.
