Complete 2012 forensic audit documents - Kansas Bioscience ...

Through June 30, 2011, nine Eminent Scholars have been approved for funding in the amount of
$20,670,639. Through June 30, 2011, $9,519,342 had been paid. Please refer to Exhibit 3 for a
listing of the Eminent Scholar awards.
Results of the Eminent Scholar Program
In response to a specific request for a discussion of the results of the Eminent Scholar program,
KBA supplied the following narrative.
“Among the most significant Outcomes of these investments have been new external
research funding and the creation of high paying jobs in Kansas. As of June 30, 2011, the
nine Eminent Scholars had attracted almost $52 million in new external research grants to
Kansas. Fifty-three jobs have been created in Kansas as a result of Eminent Scholar
grants, and those jobs have an average annual salary of approximately $86,000.
More than half of these grants were approved in 2010, so the scholars are very early in
their tenure in Kansas. As they establish their research programs, Kansas can reasonably
expect them to generate significant new Outcomes.
Notably, seven of the nine grants have been for scholars that the KUCC needed to recruit
in order to build an enterprise worthy of designation by the National Cancer Institute.
One benchmark for the designation application was the requirement that the cancer center
be winning at least $11 million a year in NCI funding; the nine scholars recruited under
the Eminent Scholars program brought about $2.3 million a year in NCI funding. These
recruits also filled a number of key leadership positions that the NCI had said had to be
filled by the time of the designation application.”
BKD has not independently verified KBA’s assertions.
Kansas Bioscience Rising Stars
K.S.A. 74-99b09 created and established the Kansas Bioscience Rising Star program designed to
help attract world-class bioscience scholars to Kansas and to retain and advance the best and
brightest bioscience scholars already working in the state. Researchers must have a proven track
record of grant productivity and team leadership in a research environment. Rising Star scholars
would be likely candidates for the National Academy of Sciences or other prominent national
academic science organizations in the future.
All PhD-granting institutions in Kansas conducting bioscience research are eligible to apply for
funding under this program. To qualify for funding, the proposing institution must match KBA
funds dollar for dollar. 28
The application, evaluation, review and award process is exactly as that described above for the
Eminent Scholar program. The post-award monitoring and reporting process also mirrors that of
the Eminent Scholar program.
28 KBA website: http:// www.kansasbioauthority.org/how_we_can_help/Stars.aspx.
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