42 U.S.C. § 285k — National Institute of General Medical Sciences

submitted 82 years ago by Pub. L. 99-158 to r/title-42-THE-PUBLIC-HEALTH-AND-WELFARE · 305 words · no verdicts yet

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This Institute studies basic medical science that helps other institutes. Its Director runs a program to help states with historically low grant success. It also funds first-time lead researchers.

(a) General purpose: The National Institute of General Medical Sciences studies and supports research, training, and health information on general and basic medical sciences, plus related natural or behavioral sciences. This work matters to two or more other national research institutes, or covers ground no other institute is responsible for. (b) Institutional development award program: (1)(A) The Director of NIH, working through the Director of this Institute, must set up a program to help certain entities compete better for funding from the national research institutes. (B) Those entities are ones that do biomedical or behavioral research in a state where, historically, that state's entities have had a low success rate winning such funding compared to entities in other states. (C) To help these entities compete, the Director of NIH may: (i) give technical help, including help writing funding applications; (ii) help the entities build a research plan; and (iii) help them carry out that plan. (2) The Director of NIH must also set up a program that funds research projects led by researchers who have never before led a project funded by the Director.

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(a) General purpose

The general purpose of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences is the conduct and support of research, training, and, as appropriate, health information dissemination, and other programs with respect to general or basic medical sciences and related natural or behavioral sciences which have significance for two or more other national research institutes or are outside the general area of responsibility of any other national research institute.

(b) Institutional development award program

(1)

(A)

In the case of entities described in subparagraph (B), the Director of NIH, acting through the Director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, shall establish a program to enhance the competitiveness of such entities in obtaining funds from the national research institutes for conducting biomedical and behavioral research.

(B)

The entities referred to in subparagraph (A) are entities that conduct biomedical and behavioral research and are located in a State in which the aggregate success rate for applications to the national research institutes for assistance for such research by the entities in the State has historically constituted a low success rate of obtaining such funds, relative to such aggregate rate for such entities in other States.

(C)

With respect to enhancing competitiveness for purposes of subparagraph (A), the Director of NIH, in carrying out the program established under such subparagraph, may—

(i)

provide technical assistance to the entities involved, including technical assistance in the preparation of applications for obtaining funds from the national research institutes;

(ii)

assist the entities in developing a plan for biomedical or behavioral research proposals; and

(iii)

assist the entities in implementing such plan.

(2)

The Director of NIH shall establish a program of supporting projects of biomedical or behavioral research whose principal researchers are individuals who have not previously served as the principal researchers of such projects supported by the Director.

Source credit: (July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title IV, § 461, as added Pub. L. 99–158, § 2, Nov. 20, 1985, 99 Stat. 857; amended Pub. L. 112–74, div. F, title II, § 221(b)(5), Dec. 23, 2011, 125 Stat. 1088.)

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1944Enacted · Pub. L. 99-158 · 99 Stat. 857
2011Amended · Pub. L. 112-74 · 125 Stat. 1088

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