NIEHS-funded investigators with an active grant in neuroscience are eligible to access the consortium to perform neuroscience experiments, and, because NIH pays most consortium costs, user fees are very reasonable.
According to Scot Waterman, the executive director of the Racing Medication and Testing Consortium, the cost for an individual drug test in New York, which is $55, is below the industry average.
Last month construction workers launched a general strike in pursuit of huge pay increases, which has left the project to enlarge the Panama Canal paralysed for the second time this year (the first occasion was a row with a construction consortium about cost overruns).
With so much at stake, Kazakhstan justified its demand for more money by pointing out a large overrun: the consortium's estimated cost to develop the field rose to $136 billion from $57 billion, cutting into the government's take.
It is being built by Novarka, a French consortium, and its cost, €1.5 billion, is met by donations from dozens of countries, administered by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
The Scottish Medicines Consortium said the cost of the drug did not justify the health benefits.
Earlier this year the Scottish Medicines Consortium said the cost of the drug did not justify the health benefits, but it is still in discussions with the manufacturers.
A new state-of-the-art fabrication facility costs $4 billion to $5 billion, and the process technology being developed by a consortium of companies costs many times that amount.
After the initial phase of a billion-dollar contract to build the tunnel was awarded to a consortium of companies, costs began to exceed estimates by the millions.
AOL has joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab as a sponsor, which according to the consortium's site, costs around $200,000.
