H.R. 3168 · 109th Congress
To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for Centers for Clinical Discovery through grants from the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
- Stage
- In committee
- Sponsor
- Walter Jones
- Introduced
- 2005-06-30
- Latest action
- 2005-07-01 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Summary
Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to make grants for research centers (each to be known as a Center for Clinical Discovery) to accelerate next-generation approaches to the development of new therapies and diagnostics by: (1) bringing together patients, researchers with specialized expertise, and sophisticated technologies; and (2) basing such development on individual genotypes and individual variations in cell and molecular physiology.