N.Y. Education Law § 363: Curing Alzheimer's health consortium

§ 363. Curing Alzheimer's health consortium. 1. There is hereby

established within the state university of New York the curing

Alzheimer's health consortium. The consortium shall have as its purpose

to identify genes that predict an increased risk for developing the

disease, collaborating with research institutions within the state

university of New York system, and the department of health, in research

projects and studies to identify opportunities to develop new

therapeutic treatment and cures for Alzheimer's.

2. The state university of New York shall issue a request for

proposals to partner with hospitals both within the state university of

New York and other not-for-profit article twenty-eight of the public

health law hospitals and non-profit higher education research

institutions to map the genomes of individuals suffering from or at risk

of Alzheimer's.