Proposed NCATS has scientists hissing at plan to dismantle NIH resource centre
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
The fur has been flying at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) ever since its director, Dr Francis Collins – the scientist who headed the US human genome project – decided last year that it was time to get serious about putting the agency's resources to greater use in translating basic discoveries into drug therapies, and proposed creating a new centre to do just that.