42 U.S.C. § 284o: Activities of the National…

Summary

The NIH Director can set up ways to coordinate paralysis research across NIH centers to speed progress and avoid repeating work. The Director can give grants to public or private groups to create and run Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Research Consortia, and must call each funded group by that name. These consortia can do basic, translational, and clinical studies; work on treatments and therapies; study paralysis from central nervous system injury or stroke; share results widely; repeat findings to confirm them; be based at one lead institution or several partners; and the Director can require regular reports and coordination among them. The Director can also create a way to tell the public about NIH paralysis programs and to get public comments. Director means the head of the National Institutes of Health.

Title 42, §284o

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(a)Coordination

The Director of the National Institutes of Health (referred to in this section and section 280g–9 and 284p of this title as the “Director”), pursuant to the general authority of the Director, may develop mechanisms to coordinate the paralysis research and rehabilitation activities of the Institutes and Centers of the National Institutes of Health in order to further advance such activities and avoid duplication of activities.

(b)Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Research Consortia

(1)In general

The Director may make awards of grants to public or private entities to pay all or part of the cost of planning, establishing, improving, and providing basic operating support for consortia in paralysis research. The Director shall designate each consortium funded through such grants as a Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Research Consortium.

(2)Research

Each consortium under paragraph (1)—

(A)may conduct basic, translational, and clinical paralysis research;

(B)may focus on advancing treatments and developing therapies in paralysis research;

(C)may focus on one or more forms of paralysis that result from central nervous system trauma or stroke;

(D)may facilitate and enhance the dissemination of clinical and scientific findings; and

(E)may replicate the findings of consortia members or other researchers for scientific and translational purposes.

(3)Coordination of consortia; reports

The Director may, as appropriate, provide for the coordination of information among consortia under paragraph (1) and ensure regular communication among members of the consortia, and may require the periodic preparation of reports on the activities of the consortia and the submission of the reports to the Director.

(4)Organization of consortia

Each consortium under paragraph (1) may use the facilities of a single lead institution, or be formed from several cooperating institutions, meeting such requirements as may be prescribed by the Director.

(c)Public input

The Director may provide for a mechanism to educate and disseminate information on the existing and planned programs and research activities of the National Institutes of Health with respect to paralysis and through which the Director can receive comments from the public regarding such programs and activities.

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was enacted as part of the Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Act, and also as part of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009, and not as part of the Public Health Service Act which comprises this chapter.

§284o Activities of the National Institutes of Health with Respect to Research on Paralysis

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Title 42, §284o

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