Senate Bills - 110th Congress

S. 2988—The Accelerating Cures Act of 2008

On May 7, 2008, Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) introduced S. 2988, the Accelerating Cures Act of 2008, to enhance public and private research efforts to develop new tools and therapies that prevent, detect, and cure diseases more quickly from bench to bedside. Fundamentally, the bill has the same intent to promote clinical and translational research within the National Institutes of Health as S. 2104, the bill introduced by the Senator in 2005.