S. 5295 119th Congress Senate

NIH Mentorship Modernization Act

Official title: A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to strengthen mentorship and career development support for early-career researchers receiving funding from the N… Show full official titleShow less

Introduced: August 6, 2026 Introduced by: David McCormick Republican · Pennsylvania See on congress.gov

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Aug 6, 2026

Introduced in Senate

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

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Cosponsors 1

Coons, Christopher A.

Delaware · Aug 6, 2026

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APA

U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 5295: NIH Mentorship Modernization Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-5295/

MLA

"S. 5295: NIH Mentorship Modernization Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-5295/.

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S. 5295, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-5295/.

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[S. 5295: NIH Mentorship Modernization Act](https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-5295/)