§283q — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

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The head of the National Institutes of Health must run prize competitions under existing rules. The contests can do one or both of two things: find and pay for biomedical research areas where a prize could spark big advances, and improve health for people with diseases that either get too little research money compared to what the federal government spends on their care (so research could cut those costs), are serious and common in the U.S., or could give a large return on investment for the country. The NIH must track how prize-funded innovations affect research, health outcomes, and federal spending. The agency must put that information into its report filed every three years.

Title 42, §283q

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(a)Pursuant to the authorities and processes established under section 3719 of title 15, the Director of the National Institutes of Health shall support prize competitions for one or both of the following goals:

(1)Identifying and funding areas of biomedical science that could realize significant advancements through a prize competition.

(2)Improving health outcomes, particularly with respect to human diseases and conditions—

(A)for which public and private investment in research is disproportionately small relative to Federal Government expenditures on prevention and treatment activities with respect to such diseases and conditions, such that Federal expenditures on health programs would be reduced;

(B)that are serious and represent a significant disease burden in the United States; or

(C)for which there is potential for significant return on investment to the United States.

(b)The Director of the National Institutes of Health shall—

(1)collect information on—

(A)the effect of innovations funded through the prize competitions under this section in advancing biomedical science or improving health outcomes pursuant to subsection (a); and

(B)the effect of the innovations on Federal expenditures; and

(2)include the information collected under paragraph (1) in the triennial report under section 283 of this title (as amended by section 2032).

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section 2032, referred to in subsec. (b)(2), means section 2032 of Pub. L. 114–255. Codification Section was enacted as part of the 21st Century Cures Act, and not as part of the Public Health Service Act which comprises this chapter.

§283q Eureka prize competitions

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