NIH Translational Science Center Defended On Capitol Hill

26 Mar 2012

NIH Director Francis Collins March 20 defends his newly formed National Center for Advancing Translational Science, which is aimed at turning new diagnostic and therapeutic discoveries into viable products, before a highly suspicious House Appropriations Labor-HHS Subcommittee.

NIH Director Francis Collins defended the institutes’ FY 2013 budget request, as well as a new translational science center he created at the beginning of the year, before a hypercritical House Appropriations Labor/HHS Subcommittee on March 20.

Collins described the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) as an NIH body that will identify bottlenecks that prevent...