---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 285j–3"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "285j–3"
heading: "Research on multiple sclerosis"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/285j-3"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter III — National Research Institutes"
  - "Part C — Specific Provisions Respecting National Research Institutes"
  - "Subpart 10 — national institute of neurological disorders and stroke"
---

# §285j–3. Research on multiple sclerosis


The [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the Institute shall conduct and support research on multiple sclerosis, especially research on effects of genetics and hormonal changes on the progress of the disease.


## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title IV, § 460, as added Pub. L. 103–43, title XII, § 1201, June 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 169.)