National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences

National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)
AbbreviationNCATS
FormationDecember 23, 2011
TypeU.S. government agency
Legal statusActive
HeadquartersBethesda, Maryland, US
Director
Joni L. Rutter
Parent organization
National Institutes of Health
AffiliationsUnited States Public Health Service
Websitencats.nih.gov

The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) was established on December 23, 2011[1] and is located in Bethesda, Maryland. NCATS is one of 27 institutes and centers of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The mission of NCATS is to transform scientific discoveries into new treatments and cures for disease that can be delivered faster to patients. The budget provided to NCATS for fiscal year 2018 is $557,373,000.[2]

  1. ^ Wadman, Meredith (12 January 2012). "US translational-science centre gets under way". Nature. 481 (7380): 128. Bibcode:2012Natur.481..128W. doi:10.1038/481128a. PMID 22237088.
  2. ^ "Budget". National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences. 12 March 2015.