National Center for Advancing Translational Science at NIH
May 5, 2014 | Terry Sharrer

NCATS Organizational Chart
It might be hard to figure why the NIH needed to add this 27th branch to its table of organization, since its other major institutes do the kind of innovation this newest facility addresses. Perhaps it does give more emphasis to rare disease research, which is one of its offices, but it appears to be a kind of FDA within the NIH, aimed at speeding up clinical trials. MORE
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