1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Pediatricians Accelerate Childhood Therapies Act of 2019 or the PACT Act of 2019 . 2. Trans-NIH Awards for Early-Career Pediatric Researchers Part G of title IV of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 288 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new section: 489A. Trans-NIH Awards for Early-Career Pediatric Researchers (a) In general The Director of the NIH shall make awards to outstanding scientists, including physician-scientists, to support researchers focusing on pediatric research, including basic, clinical, translational, or pediatric pharmacological research. (b) Priority research topic areas In carrying out subsection (a), the Director of NIH, in consultation with the Director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the directors of other national research institutes and national centers that participate within the Trans-NIH Pediatric Research Consortium, shall— (1) establish priority research topic areas, informed by external stakeholders including research institutions, research societies, patient organizations, and industry; and (2) consider opportunities to align such priority pediatric research topic areas with current and future priorities of the National Institutes of Health, including— (A) childhood cancer; (B) precision medicine, genetics, and genomics; (C) rare diseases and disorders, such as sickle cell disease, and other diseases and disorders with significant unmet training needs; (D) fetal, placental, and neonatal development; and (E) child and adolescent mental health. (c) Priority awards In making awards under this section, the Director of NIH shall— (1) give priority to researchers, including physician-scientists, who have a demonstrated proficiency in conducting pediatric research, but have not yet achieved research independence at the time of their application