NIH Translational Science Center Defended On Capitol Hill
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
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.
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