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[CITE: 42USC285k]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 6A--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
 
              SUBCHAPTER III--NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES
 
   Part C--Specific Provisions Respecting National Research Institutes
 
       subpart 11--national institute of general medical sciences
 
Sec. 285k. Purpose of Institute

    The general purpose of the National Institute of General Medical 
Sciences is the conduct and support of research, training, and, as 
appropriate, health information dissemination, and other programs with 
respect to general or basic medical sciences and related natural or 
behavioral sciences which have significance for two or more other 
national research institutes or are outside the general area of 
responsibility of any other national research institute.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title IV, Sec. 461, as added Pub. L. 99-158, 
Sec. 2, Nov. 20, 1985, 99 Stat. 857.)
