§284f — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

Summary

The Director of the National Institutes of Health must set up and run a research and training program for Parkinson’s disease, if money is provided. The Director must coordinate work among the national research institutes and hold a research planning conference at least once every 2 years. Each conference must send a report to four Congressional committees: the Senate Appropriations Committee, the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources, the House Appropriations Committee, and the House Committee on Commerce. The Director can make up to 10 Core Center Grants and call each funded site a Morris K. Udall Center for Research on Parkinson’s Disease. Each center must be based at one institution or a group of institutions, meet NIH rules, and do both basic and clinical research. Centers may also train scientists and health workers, teach and update health professionals, share information with the public, build a nationwide patient data system, create an information clearinghouse, and run a national education program. Centers can pay training stipends. Grants may run up to 5 years and can be extended for additional periods of up to 5 years after peer review. The Director may also fund individual investigators with proven records for up to 5 years.

Title 42, §284f

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(a)The Director of NIH shall establish a program for the conduct and support of research and training with respect to Parkinson’s disease (subject to the extent of amounts appropriated to carry out this section).

(b)(1)The Director of NIH shall provide for the coordination of the program established under subsection (a) among all of the national research institutes conducting Parkinson’s disease research.

(2)Coordination under paragraph (1) shall include the convening of a research planning conference not less frequently than once every 2 years. Each such conference shall prepare and submit to the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on Labor and Human Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on Commerce of the House of Representatives a report concerning the conference.

(c)(1)The Director of NIH is authorized to award Core Center Grants to encourage the development of innovative multidisciplinary research and provide training concerning Parkinson’s disease. The Director is authorized to award not more than 10 Core Center Grants and designate each center funded under such grants as a Morris K. Udall Center for Research on Parkinson’s Disease.

(2)(A)With respect to Parkinson’s disease, each center assisted under this subsection shall—

(i)use the facilities of a single institution or a consortium of cooperating institutions, and meet such qualifications as may be prescribed by the Director of the NIH; and

(ii)conduct basic and clinical research.

(B)With respect to Parkinson’s disease, each center assisted under this subsection may—

(i)conduct training programs for scientists and health professionals;

(ii)conduct programs to provide information and continuing education to health professionals;

(iii)conduct programs for the dissemination of information to the public;

(iv)separately or in collaboration with other centers, establish a nationwide data system derived from patient populations with Parkinson’s disease, and where possible, comparing relevant data involving general populations;

(v)separately or in collaboration with other centers, establish a Parkinson’s Disease Information Clearinghouse to facilitate and enhance knowledge and understanding of Parkinson’s disease; and

(vi)separately or in collaboration with other centers, establish a national education program that fosters a national focus on Parkinson’s disease and the care of those with Parkinson’s disease.

(3)A center may use funds provided under paragraph (1) to provide stipends for scientists and health professionals enrolled in training programs under paragraph (2)(B).

(4)Support of a center under this subsection may be for a period not exceeding five years. Such period may be extended by the Director of NIH for one or more additional periods of not more than five years if the operations of such center have been reviewed by an appropriate technical and scientific peer review group established by the Director and if such group has recommended to the Director that such period should be extended.

(d)The Director of NIH is authorized to establish a grant program to support investigators with a proven record of excellence and innovation in Parkinson’s disease research and who demonstrate potential for significant future breakthroughs in the understanding of the pathogensis,11 So in original. Probably should be “pathogenesis,”. diagnosis, and treatment of Parkinson’s disease. Grants under this subsection shall be available for a period of not to exceed 5 years.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2007—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 109–482, § 103(b)(8)(A), substituted “to carry out this section” for “under subsection (e) of this section”. Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 109–482, § 103(b)(8)(B), struck out heading and text of subsec. (e). Text read as follows: “For the purpose of carrying out this section and section 241 of this title and this subchapter with respect to research focused on Parkinson’s disease, there are authorized to be appropriated up to $100,000,000 for fiscal year 1998, and such sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 1999 and 2000.”

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

Committee on Commerce of House of Representatives changed to Committee on Energy and Commerce of House of Representatives, and jurisdiction over matters relating to securities and exchanges and insurance generally transferred to Committee on Financial Services of House of Representatives by House Resolution No. 5, One Hundred Seventh Congress, Jan. 3, 2001. Committee on Labor and Human Resources of Senate changed to Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of Senate by Senate Resolution No. 20, One Hundred Sixth Congress, Jan. 19, 1999.

Effective Date

of 2007 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 109–482 applicable only with respect to amounts appropriated for fiscal year 2007 or subsequent fiscal years, see section 109 of Pub. L. 109–482, set out as a note under section 281 of this title. Additional Grants Pub. L. 108–199, div. E, title II, § 217, Jan. 23, 2004, 118 Stat. 255, provided that: “Notwithstanding section 409B(c) of the Public Health Service Act [42 U.S.C. 284f(c)] regarding a limitation on the number of such grants, funds appropriated in this Act [div. E of Pub. L. 108–199, see Tables for classification] and Acts in fiscal years thereafter may be expended by the Director of the National Institutes of Health to award Core Center Grants to encourage the development of innovative multidisciplinary research and provide training concerning Parkinson’s disease. Each center funded under such grants shall be designated as a Morris K. Udall Center for Research on Parkinson’s Disease.” Similar provisions were contained in Pub. L. 108–7, div. G, title II, § 218, Feb. 20, 2003, 117 Stat. 326. Finding and Purpose Pub. L. 105–78, title VI, § 603(b), Nov. 13, 1997, 111 Stat. 1519, provided that: “(1) Finding.—Congress finds that to take full advantage of the tremendous potential for finding a cure or effective treatment, the Federal investment in Parkinson’s disease must be expanded, as well as the coordination strengthened among the National Institutes of Health research institutes. “(2) Purpose.—It is the purpose of this section [enacting this section] to provide for the expansion and coordination of research regarding Parkinson’s disease, and to improve care and assistance for afflicted individuals and their family caregivers.”

§284f Parkinson’s disease