Recently, leaders in the scientific community have suggested that the current system of federal funding may incentivize institutions to encourage faculty to obtain up to 100 percent of their salary from federal grants and that the federal government should consider requiring institutions to pay a greater share of salaries for faculty involved in extramural sponsored research. The data in this Analysis in Brief strongly suggest that medical schools have been far less reliant on sponsored research support for full-time faculty than has been asserted. The average salary support for faculty conducting sponsored research was 29 percent for those with MD degrees and 49 percent for non-MDs.
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Sponsored Program Salary Support to Medical School Faculty in 2009
January 2011 Analysis in Brief