Bill > HR2448

This bill amends the Public Health Service Act, a foundational law for health research in the United States, to establish a program for "high-risk, high-reward research." This means that each national research institute, which are specialized divisions within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) focused on specific diseases or health areas, will be required to create or fund research projects that take on innovative but potentially challenging approaches to significant health problems, with the possibility of leading to major scientific breakthroughs. The Director of the NIH will decide what portion of each institute's budget should be dedicated to these ambitious research endeavors.