35 P.S. § 5701.908 National Institutes of Health Funding Formula

• Library: Pennsylvania Statutes
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current through P.A. Acts 2023-21
• Year: 2023
• Citation: 35 P.S. § 5701.908

(a) Eligibility.--An institution that conducts research in this Commonwealth and has received funding from the National Institutes of Health during each of the three immediately preceding Federal fiscal years shall be eligible to receive a grant pursuant to section 906(1) . For one year from the effective date of this act, an institution that has immediately succeeded, by asset acquisition, the research function of another institution that received National Institutes of Health funding during any of the four immediately preceding fiscal years shall be considered eligible to receive a grant pursuant tosection 906(1).

(b) Fund distribution.--Funds under this section shall be distributed to eligible institutions as follows:

(1) Twenty percent shall be distributed to each institution that receives more than $175,000,000 as an average amount from the National Institutes of Health during the three immediately preceding Federal fiscal years.

(2) Seventeen percent shall be distributed to each institution that receives more than $175,000,000 in federally sponsored research and development obligations in the immediately available preceding Federal fiscal year as reported by the National Science Foundation and receives more than $60,000,000 as an average amount from the National Institutes of Health during the three immediately preceding Federal fiscal years.

(3) The remaining funds shall be distributed to eligible institutions based on the percentage calculated by dividing an institution's average award from the National Institutes of Health for the three immediately preceding Federal fiscal years by the sum of the average annual award from the National Institutes of Health for all Pennsylvania-based eligible institutions during the three immediately available preceding Federal fiscal years.