Senate Panel Supports $56 Million Boost For NIH Translational Science Center
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences would get a sizable chunk of the funding increase approved for NIH by the Senate Appropriations Committee but support for increasing its budget is not universal.
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