§ 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.
