Section 172.794 - Selection of award recipients, requirements1. The board of curators, with the recommendations of the advisory board, shall award funds to selected investigators in accordance with the following provisions: (1) Individual awards shall not exceed two hundred fifty thousand dollars per year and shall expire at the end of one or two years, depending on the recommendation of the advisory board for each award;(2) Costs for overhead of the grantee individual or institution shall not be allowed;(3) Investigators shall be affiliated with a public or private educational, health care, voluntary health association or research institution which shall specify the institutional official responsible for administration of the award;(4) Awards shall be used to obtain preliminary data to test hypotheses and to enable investigators to develop subsequent competitive applications for long-term funding from other sources; and(5) The research project shall be conducted in Missouri.2. Funds appropriated for but not awarded to research projects in any given year shall be included in the board of curators' appropriations request for research projects in the succeeding year.L. 2001 H.B. 218, A.L. 2010S.B. 987.