Title 51 — National and Commercial Space ProgramsRelease 119-73

§40502 Biomedical research grants

Title 51 › Subtitle Subtitle IV— - Aeronautics and Space Research and Education › Chapter CHAPTER 405— - BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH IN SPACE › § 40502

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Administrator and the Director of the National Institutes of Health must create a joint grant program for biomedical research that needs a microgravity environment, covering the areas listed in section 40501(a) and following the joint working group's actions under section 40501. Each year NIH and the Administration must announce research opportunities together. A peer review panel picked by the two leaders will evaluate applications and must include people who do not work for either agency.

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Title 51, §40502

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(a)The Administrator and the Director of the National Institutes of Health shall establish a joint program of biomedical research grants in areas described in section 40501(a) of this title, where such research requires access to a microgravity environment. Such program shall be consistent with actions taken by the joint working group under section 40501 of this title.

(b)The grants program established under subsection (a) shall annually issue joint research opportunity announcements under the sponsorship of the National Institutes of Health and the Administration. Responses to the announcements shall be evaluated by a peer review committee whose members shall be selected by the Director of the National Institutes of Health and the Administrator, and shall include individuals not employed by the Administration or the National Institutes of Health.

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Revised SectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 4050242 U.S.C. 2487b.Pub. L. 102–588, title VI, § 603, Nov. 4, 1992, 106 Stat. 5130.

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51 U.S.C. § 40502

Title 51 — National and Commercial Space Programs

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Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73