Legal status of national medical research centers

The article considers the possibility of decentralization of state administration in the sphere of public health by giving a special status to national medical research centers. It is indicated that such practice is present in many countries of the world aimed at accelerated development of innovations in the sphere of biomedicine, reduction of administrative barriers in the process of conducting scientific research. Foreign experience is presented, namely Spain, USA, Canada, within the framework of which a number of administrative powers are delegated to health institutes. It is proposed to expand the competence of Russian national medical research centers due to the possibility of their distribution of grant assistance to scientific organizations, normative regulation of experimental scientific research, approval of ethical examinations of innovations in the field of biomedicine.