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SEC. 2. NATIONAL PEDIATRIC RESEARCH NETWORK.
Section 409D of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 284h; relating to the Pediatric Research Initiative) is amended—
- (1) by redesignating subsection (d) as subsection (f); and
- (2) by inserting after subsection (c) the following:
- ‘‘(d) NATIONAL PEDIATRIC RESEARCH NETWORK.—
- ‘‘(1) NETWORK.—In carrying out the Initiative, the Director of NIH, acting through the Director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and in collaboration with other appropriate national research institutes and national centers that carry out activities involving pediatric research, may provide for the establishment of a National Pediatric Research Network consisting of the pediatric research consortia receiving awards under paragraph (2).
- ‘‘(2) PEDIATRIC RESEARCH CONSORTIA.—
- ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Director of the Institute may award funding, including through grants, contracts, or other mechanisms, to public or private nonprofit entities—
