42 CFR § 63.2 - Definitions.

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title: "42 CFR § 63.2 - Definitions."
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section_number: "63.2"
section_name: "Definitions."
chapter_name: "PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES"
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# 63.2 Definitions.

As used in this part:

*Act* means the Public Health Service Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 201 *et seq.*).

*Award* means an award of funds under sections 402(b)(13), 405(b)(1)(C), 413(b)(3), 472, 485D(a), or other sections of the Act which authorize research training or traineeships.

*Awardee* means an individual awarded a traineeship under sections 402(b)(13), 405(b)(1)(C), 413(b)(3), 472, 485D(a), or other sections of the Act which authorize research training or traineeships.

*Director* means the Director, NIH, the director of a national research institute of NIH, the Director of the National Library of Medicine, and the Director of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, or any official of NIH to whom the authority involved has been delegated.

*HHS* means the Department of Health and Human Services.

*NIH* means the National Institutes of Health.

*PHS* means the Public Health Service.

*Research misconduct* shall have the same meaning as prescribed in § 93.103 of this chapter.

*Traineeship* means an award under the regulations of this part to a qualified individual for that person's subsistence and other expenses during the period that person is participating in the research training approved under the award.

[60 FR 10719, Feb. 27, 1995, as amended at 65 FR 66513, Nov. 6, 2000; 85 FR 72909, Nov. 16, 2020]