§285a–3 — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

§285a–3 National cancer research and demonstration centers

Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 6A— - PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER III— - NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES › Part Part C— - Specific Provisions Respecting National Research Institutes › Subpart subpart 1— - national cancer institute › § 285a–3

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Director of the Institute can give grants or enter into cooperative agreements with public or private nonprofit groups to plan, create, or support centers that do basic and clinical cancer research, training, and demonstrations of advanced ways to diagnose, prevent, control, and treat cancer. These awards must follow NIH policies and be made after the Institute’s advisory council is consulted. Federal money can pay for construction (even if section 289e limits construction), staffing and basic operating costs (including patient care needed for research), clinical training and continuing education (including for allied health workers), public information, and demonstration projects. Support can last up to five years. The Director may renew funding in additional blocks of up to five years if a technical and scientific peer review group set up by the Director reviews the center and recommends extension. Centers funded under this authority cannot be treated as “centers of excellence” under section 282(b)(10).

Title 42, §285a–3

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(a)(1)The Director of the Institute may enter into cooperative agreements with and make grants to public or private nonprofit entities to pay all or part of the cost of planning, establishing, or strengthening, and providing basic operating support for centers for basic and clinical research into, training in, and demonstration of advanced diagnostic, prevention, control, and treatment methods for cancer.

(2)A cooperative agreement or grant under paragraph (1) shall be entered into in accordance with policies established by the Director of NIH and after consultation with the Institute’s advisory council.

(b)Federal payments made under a cooperative agreement or grant under subsection (a) may be used for—

(1)construction (notwithstanding any limitation under section 289e of this title);

(2)staffing and other basic operating costs, including such patient care costs as are required for research;

(3)clinical training, including training for allied health professionals, continuing education for health professionals and allied health professions personnel, and information programs for the public respecting cancer; and

(4)demonstration purposes.

(c)Support of a center under subsection (a) may be for a period of not to exceed five years. Such period may be extended by the Director for additional periods of not more than five years each 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)Research centers under this section may not be considered centers of excellence for purposes of section 282(b)(10) of this title.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2007—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 109–482 added subsec. (d). 2002—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 107–206 substituted “Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards” for “National Research Service Awards” in concluding provisions. 1988—Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 100–607 inserted “control,” after “prevention,”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

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.