---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 300cc–16"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "300cc–16"
heading: "Research centers"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/300cc-16"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter XXI — Research with Respect to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome"
  - "Part B — Research Authority"
---

# §300cc–16. Research centers

- (a) **In general—**
  - (1) The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c), acting through the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, may make grants to, and enter into contracts with, public and [nonprofit](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=3) private entities to assist such entities in planning, establishing, or strengthening, and providing basic operating support for, centers for basic and [clinical research](/usc/42/284d.md?p=b) into, and training in, advanced diagnostic, prevention, and [treatment](/usc/42/11851.md?p=11) methods for acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
  - (2) A grant or contract under [paragraph (1)](#a-1) shall be provided in accordance with policies established by the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c), acting through the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the National Institutes of Health, and after consultation with the [advisory council](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=1) for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
  - (3) The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) shall ensure that, as appropriate, [clinical research](/usc/42/284d.md?p=b) [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) carried out under [paragraph (1)](#a-1) include as research subjects women, children, hemophiliacs, and minorities.
- (b) **Use of financial assistance—**
  - (1) Financial assistance under [subsection (a)](#a) may be expended for—
    - (A) the renovation or leasing of space;
    - (B) staffing and other basic operating costs, including such patient care costs as are required for [clinical research](/usc/42/284d.md?p=b);
    - (C) clinical training with respect to acquired immune deficiency syndrome (including such training for allied health professionals); and
    - (D) demonstration purposes, including [projects](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) in the long-term monitoring and outpatient [treatment](/usc/42/11851.md?p=11) of individuals infected with the etiologic agent for such syndrome.
  - (2) Financial assistance under [subsection (a)](#a) may not be expended to provide research training for which Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research [Service](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) Awards may be provided under [section 288 of this title](/usc/42/288.md).
- (c) **Duration of support—** Support of a center under [subsection (a)](#a) may be for not more than five years. Such period may be extended by the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) for additional periods of not more than five years each if the operations of such center have been reviewed by an appropriate technical and scientific peer review group established by the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) and if such group has recommended to the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) that such period should be extended.
- (d) **Authorization of appropriations—** For the purpose of carrying out this section, there are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary.

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XXIII, § 2316, as added Pub. L. 100–607, title II, § 201(4), Nov. 4, 1988, 102 Stat. 3071; amended Pub. L. 107–206, title I, § 804(c), Aug. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 874.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2002—Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 107–206 substituted “Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards” for “National Research Service Awards”.