Hi Tim,
At Northwestern some of the cores depreciate and some don't. All of the Cancer
Center cores depreciate where possible. This cost is calculated into the rates
since those funds will be transferred out of the recharge account.
Our Office for Research does have an internal equipment competition. It used to
be twice a year but just got cut to once. The total available funding also
decreased so I'm not sure how much we have in the current pool. We also have a
loan program, where cores that can afford it borrow the funds for a piece of
equipment and pay them back over 10 years. That program is thus (mostly)
self-sustaining.
Thanks.
Jeff
Jeffrey Weiss, PhD
Director for Research Core Planning
Director for Research Analysis | Feinberg School of Medicine
Research Professor of Medicine | Northwestern University | T: 312.503.0543
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Subject: [core administrators network forum] Depreciation and Instrument
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Hello all,
Hoping to get some help from the collective wisdom here. Two separate
questions are on the table.
1. Depreciation - I know instruments purchased with NIH funds cannot be
depreciated, but how many of you depreciate instruments purchased with internal
funds? If you do depreciate, do you add that into the rate calculation?
2. Instrument purchases - While instrumentation grants are nice, there is a
limit to the utility of them for replacement of older instruments as well as
acquiring cutting edge technology. I have proposed an institutional funding
mechanism to provide for this process. I've been asked to see if other
institutions have such an internal funding mechanism. If so, what is the
approximate value of that fund on an annual basis and how does the fund work.
Thanks so much,
Tim
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