NIH Translational Science Center Becomes A (Cash-limited) Reality

NIH receives more than one-half billion dollars to finance activities of the National Center for Advancing Translational Science, which came into being when President Obama signed a consolidated fiscal 2012 appropriations bill Dec. 23. House and Senate members who negotiated the final bill cautioned that NCATS’ efforts to find ways to speed up drug development should not inhibit private efforts in the same arena.