Section 5060.16 - Duties of Center relating to health research The Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology, with the advice and consent of the Committee, may:
1. Establish and operate a state program designed to secure and impartially distribute funds credited to the Research Support Revolving Fund to support professional service contracts for health research projects;2. Ensure that funding to support health research projects is awarded only on the basis of scientific merit;3. Design the health research program to ensure the optimum performance of the investigator and the maximum efficiency of the project;4. Evaluate and approve health research projects to be funded from the Research Support Revolving Fund;5. Establish a procedure for the referral of proposed health research projects to the Committee for review;6. Establish procedures for review of proposed health research projects by qualified individuals residing outside this state;7. Suspend or terminate any professional service contract supporting health research projects for failure by an investigator, institution of higher learning, or nonprofit research institution to comply with the procedures, requirements, or bylaws of the Center; and8. Enter into contracts to ensure the optimum performance of health research investigators and to ensure the maximum efficiency of proposed health research projects.Okla. Stat. tit. 74, § 5060.16
Amended by Laws 2023 , c. 76, s. 2, eff. 11/1/2023.Added by Laws 1987, HB 1444, c. 222, § 31, emerg. eff. 7/1/1987; Amended by Laws 1995, SB 194, c. 279, § 6, emerg. eff. 7/1/1995.