# VDP-16: Korolchuk Lab- Autophagy Activators Funding Proposal **URL:** \ **Category:** Passed Proposals\ **Created:** [November 27, 2021, 9:10pm UTC](https://gov.vitadao.com/t/vdp-16-korolchuk-lab-autophagy-activators-funding-proposal/451 "2021-11-27T21:10:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 8
**Author:** ![tylergolato](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/gov.vitadao.com/tylergolato/32/688_2.png) [@tylergolato](https://gov.vitadao.com/u/tylergolato)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2021, 2:54pm UTC](https://gov.vitadao.com/t/vdp-16-korolchuk-lab-autophagy-activators-funding-proposal/451/8 "2021-12-22T14:54:40Z")
The final costing, including research cost, overheads (university, Molecule, legal), and IP-NFT artwork come to $285,000 USD in total. This is $35,000 additional over what passed on chain, which falls beneath the threshold for requiring a vote. The proposal - as you can see above - was moved on-chain before the final costing was received by the university, which created this issue. In the future, we can take two paths for avoiding this issue: 1. Waiting for a final costing from the university to put proposals on-chain. This has the downside of making us move slowly, but having an exact idea of the final cost. 2. Have a larger range in the proposal to be flexible and move quickly. --- _[View the full topic](https://gov.vitadao.com/t/vdp-16-korolchuk-lab-autophagy-activators-funding-proposal/451)._