3.0.0 2104 2023-01-13T04:49:18Z 2023-01-13T04:49:18Z Senate S S 2005-12-14 109 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2005-12-14T23:44:37Z 2005-12-14 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S13583-13589) IntroReferral 2005-12-14 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13577-13583) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2005-12-14 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress L000304 Sen. Lieberman, Joseph I. [D-CT] JOSEPH LIEBERMAN D CT I. N C000567 Sen. Cochran, Thad [R-MS] Thad Cochran R MS 2005-12-14 True C000174 Sen. Carper, Thomas R. [D-DE] Thomas Carper D DE R. 2005-12-14 True H001016 Sen. Hutchison, Kay Bailey [R-TX] KAY HUTCHISON R TX BAILEY 2005-12-14 True Health Advice and consent of the Senate Armed Forces and National Security Arts, Culture, Religion Biological warfare Biomedical engineering Clinical trials Commerce Communication in medicine Congress Crime and Law Enforcement Curricula Cytology Data banks Department of Health and Human Services Diseases Drug industry Economics and Public Finance Education Epidemics Executive reorganization Federal advisory bodies Federal aid to education Federal aid to research Genetic research Government Operations and Politics Government publicity Governmental investigations Graduate education Higher education Human experimentation in medicine Immunology and vaccination Informed consent (Medical law) Intellectual property Law Marketing Medical education Medical ethics Medical laboratories Medical libraries Medical personnel Medical research Medical statistics Medical tests Minorities Minority health Nanotechnology National Institutes of Health (NIH) Patents Pharmaceutical research Presidential appointments Preventive medicine Research and development facilities Research centers Science, Technology, Communications Scientific education Small business Technology transfer Terrorism Vaccines Health 00 2005-12-14 Introduced in Senate 2006-02-24T18:56:09Z American Center for Cures Act of 2005 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) an American Center for Cures to promote translational research to speed the development of effective therapies, diagnostics, and cures.

Establishes a Cures Council to help advise and direct the Center's translational research efforts.

Authorizes the Center's Director (the Director of Cures) to establish Federally Funded Research and Development Centers to serve as research sites.

Establishes within the Center a Health Advanced Research Projects Agency to advance the development and deployment of critical health products. Authorizes the Agency to flexibly fund projects.

Requires the Director of Cures to establish a series of Centralized Institutional Review Boards to serve as human subject safety and well being custodians for multi-institutional clinical trials that are funded by public dollars.

Requires the Director of NIH to commission the Institute of Medicine to study the rules that protect patient safety and anonymity with respect to clinical research.

Establishes an Office of Bioscientific Enterprise Development (OBED) and transfers to it the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs. Requires OBED to partner grantees with potential purchasers of products.

Establishes an Office of Technology Transfer (OTT) and transfers to it appropriate NIH functions. Requires OTT to establish: (1) an Office of Rapid Access to Intervention Development to accelerate the process from laboratory to clinic; and (2) a program that cultivates industry interest in NIH-funded research.

Establishes an Office of Intramural Risk Opportunity and Mapping to oversee the intramural research programs of NIH.

Requires the Center for Biotechnology Information to develop new computational methods to aid in the processing of genomic data.

Provides for the construction of a clinical study registry and results database.

]]> American Center for Cures Act of 2005 Display Title American Center for Cures Act of 2005 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to establish the American Center for Cures to accelerate the development of public and private research efforts towards tools and therapies for human diseases with the goal of early disease detection, prevention, and cure, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced American Center for Cures Act of 2005 Introduced in Senate 2005-12-14T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-109s2104is/xml/BILLS-109s2104is.xml 2005-12-14 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S13583-13589) text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.