NIH director wins bid for translational medicine centre

NIH director wins bid for translational medicine centre
New nexus will bridge basic and clinical research to improve health.

Meredith Wadman


Francis Collins listens to feedback from NIH's Scientific Management Review Board on 7 December.
Bill Branson / NIHSixteen months after taking charge of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), the world's largest funder of biomedical research, director Francis Collins is now on course to lead the agency through its most significant evolution to date.

On 7 December, the NIH's Scientific Management Review Board (SMRB) voted 12-1to establish a new centre devoted to speeding therapies from the lab to the clinic. With all the grant-making powers of any of NIH's 27 existing institutes, the new centre for translational medicine and therapeutics could receive funding as soon as next October, when the US government's 2012 fiscal year begins.
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