National Diabetes Advisory Board Act

National Diabetes Advisory Board Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish a National Diabetes Advisory Board to insure the implementation of the long-range plan formulated by the National Commission on Diabetes to combat diabetes. Specifies seven Federal health officers as members of the Board, in addition to seven health professionals and five members of the general public to be appointed by the Secretary.

Requires the Board to submit simultaneously to the President and Congress an Annual Diabetes Report describing Board Activities in the prior year and progress made in diabetes research, treatment, and education with specific reference to the long-range plan to combat diabetes mellitus and suggesting recommended future expenditures and legislation.

Authorizes the appropriation of $500,000 for fiscal year 1976 and such sums as are necessary for each of the four fiscal years thereafter.

Establishes within the National Institutes of Health a program of Distinguished Scientist Awards. Authorizes the Secretary to make such awards to individual scientists who have shown continuous and outstanding productivity in diabetes research for the purpose of continuing such research. Sets the amount of each grant at $35,000 per year.

Authorizes, under the Public Health Service Act, the appropriation of specified sums in fiscal years 1977-1981 for the purpose of making grants to centers for research and training in diabetes mellitus and related endocrine and metabolic disorders.