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[CITE: 42USC2487b]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                CHAPTER 26B--BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH IN SPACE
 
Sec. 2487b. Biomedical research grants


(a) Establishment of program

    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 2487a(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 
2487a of this title.

(b) Research opportunity announcements

    The grants program established under subsection (a) of this section 
shall annually issue joint research opportunity announcements under the 
sponsorship of the National Institutes of Health and the National 
Aeronautics and Space 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 
National Aeronautics and Space Administration or the National Institutes 
of Health.

(Pub. L. 102-588, title VI, Sec. 603, Nov. 4, 1992, 106 Stat. 5130.)


                        ``Administrator'' Defined

    Administrator means Administrator of the National Aeronautics and 
Space Administration, see section 102(f) of Pub. L. 102-588, 106 Stat. 
5110.
