This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require the National Institutes of Health to establish, administer, and coordinate a National Neuromyelitis Optica (NMO) Consortium to:
award grants for research on the causes of, and the risk factors and biomarkers associated with, NMO (a neurological disease leading to blindness and paralysis);
assemble a panel of experts to provide ongoing guidance and recommendations on research design and protocols; and
designate a central laboratory to collect, analyze, and aggregate data from this research and to make the data and analysis available to researchers.
Actions
May 1, 2015
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Apr 28, 2015
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.